Community rallies to spare the life of Dearborn Heights immigrant Median El-Moustrah
December 4th, 20190 DEARBORN HEIGHTS — On a cold Monday morning, community leaders stood with the family and friends of Dearborn Heights resident Median El-Moustrah, who is slated for deportation to Lebanon despite the country’s inability to treat his many serious health conditions. Hours before Thanksgiving Immigration and Customs Enforcement...
The Star International Academy expands to Canton/Wayne-Westland Area
December 4th, 20191 CANTON — Hamadeh Educational Services (HES) and Star International Academy (SIA) announced the official groundbreaking of Star International Academy Canton (SIAC), an expansion of SIA, on December 3 at 10 a.m. at 45081 Geddes Road. The new 12-acre campus will house a technologically equipped facility with a modernistic...
Dearborn Schools parents can now check grades, report absences via app
December 4th, 20190 DEARBORN —Parents from Dearborn Public Schools can now report their children's absences and check student grades, attendance and more from a phone or tablet. The features are available through the Q Parent Connection app on Google Play or iTunes and the app may be set up using the same ID number and password they use for Parent...
FBI warns: Cyber criminals may be spying on you through smart TVs
December 3rd, 20190 PORTLAND, OR — In a pre-holiday message to consumers, an FBI field office has warned that smart TVs, or televisions equipped with Internet streaming and facial recognition capabilities, may be vulnerable to intrusion by cyber criminals intent on causing harm. The office, based out of Portland, Oregon, cautioned consumers that...
Loose leaves collection, as well as bagged collection, continues until Dec. 9-13
November 29th, 20190 DEARBORN – The city of Dearborn is reminding its residents that loose leaf collections will continue through the week of December 9-13. The last pickup for every neighborhood is scheduled on the trash day for that neighborhood that week. The city is advising that weather conditions may change the schedule. Note that it is...
Community leaders, activists react to Governor Whitmer’s controversial visit to Israel
November 29th, 20190 DEARBORN - Prior to Gov. Whitmer's departure for Israel on Sunday, November 17, the seven-day trip drew sharp criticism from a coalition of Arab American and American Muslim leaders, who questioned her timing given the Trump administration's recent announcement reversing a longstanding U.S. State Department legal opinion that Israeli...
Psychiatrist opens new practice in Dearborn to tackle mental health problems
November 29th, 20190 DEARBORN — Mental health has become a bigger issue than at any time in recent memory for millions of Americans, a challenge that the country's mental health professionals are mobilizing to take on in full force. Among them is Shady Shebak, a 33-year-old psychiatrist who recently opened Core Psych, PLLC on Dearborn's west side, with...
Levin, more than 100 Democrats send letter to Pompeo expressing “strong disagreement” with Israeli settlement policy reversal
November 29th, 20190 WASHINGTON, D.C. — Led by U.S. Rep. Andy Levin (D-Bloomfield Township), more than 100 Democratic members of Congress have signed a letter expressing “strong disagreement” with the Trump administration's decision to no longer classify Israeli settlements in the West Bank of Palestine as illegal under international law. The...
ICE arrests 90 more students in its fake Farmington Hills university sting
November 29th, 20190 FARMINGTON HILLS — News came out this week that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has now arrested about 250 students of a fake university set up by the Department of Homeland Security in Farmington Hills. The number has increased from 161 students in March. The fake university was set up to lure students primarily from...
Paralyzed man walks again thanks to Arab American doctor’s innovative procedure
November 29th, 20190 Rochester, Minnesota — A historic medical trial lead by Dr. Mohamad Bydon, a neurosurgeon and spine specialist at the Mayo Clinic, has yielded miraculous results for a patient who was paralyzed from the neck down due to a spinal cord injury. Chris Barr told ABC’s Good Morning America that he had given up hope after the prognosis...
Dearborn Heights family pleads for father’s life after ICE issues deportation order
November 27th, 20192 DEARBORN HEIGHTS - Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) plans to deport a very ill Dearborn Heights resident to Lebanon, an act which can potentially mean a death sentence for the beloved 49-year-old husband and father of three. Median El Moustrah has been diagnosed with multiple serious medical conditions, including diabetes,...
Israel’s next move: The real danger in the U.S. decision to normalize illegal Jewish settlements
November 27th, 20190 It is hardly shocking that the United States government has finally decreed that illegal Jewish settlements which have been built in defiance of international law, are, somehow, “consistent” with international law. U.S. foreign policy has been edging closer towards this conclusion for some time. Since his advent to the White House...
New report shows Facebook and Google’s pervasive surveillance poses threat to human rights
November 26th, 20190 LONDON — A new report by the human rights organization Amnesty International says tech giants Facebook and Google’s surveillance of billions of people poses a serious and systematic threat to human rights. The report, titled “Surveillance Giants: How the business model of Google and Facebook threatens human rights”, lays out...
Dearborn Public Schools representatives accept national Blue Ribbon Award
November 26th, 20190 DEARBORN — Representatives from Charles A. Lindbergh Elementary and Dearborn Public Schools visited Washington, D.C. earlier this month to accept the school’s national Blue Ribbon Award. Lindbergh was named an award winner in September and on November 15 received the award from the U.S. Department of Education during a special...
Yemeni nationals in U.S. backed into a deadly corner by uncertain TPS policies
November 26th, 20190 By Mark Hedin WASHINGTON, D.C.— "If I go back to Yemen, I have only one option: To die." So said a Brooklyn shopkeeper as he movingly described how a lifeline provided him by the United States has allowed him to thrive despite the horrors of the war afflicting his native country. The Department of Homeland Security could end that......
Fourth and final defendant pleads guilty in Coldwater child sex abuse conspiracy ring
November 26th, 20190 LANSING — Matthew Toole, 33 of Battle Creek, pleaded guilty to one felony count of conspiracy to commit kidnapping and one felony count of conspiracy to commit first degree criminal sexual conduct on a child under the age of 13, a press release from Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said. Toole was the fourth and final...
Human Rights Watch official expelled by Israel over alleged support for pro-Palestinian boycott
November 25th, 20190 JERUSALEM — An official from the Human Rights Watch non-governmental organization was expelled by Israeli officials on Monday over accusations that he backs an international pro-Palestinian boycott, a report from Reuters said. Omar Shakir, a U.S. citizen representing the New York-based organization in Israel and the Palestinian...
Ban on flavored vapes could lead to loss of 150,000 jobs, $8.4 billion sales hit
November 23rd, 20190 NEW YORK — A potential U.S. ban on e-cigarette flavors could result in a loss of more than 150,000 jobs and a direct sales hit of $8.4 billion, according to a report released on Friday by a vaping industry trade group. Two months ago President Trump’s administration announced a sweeping plan to ban all e-cigarette and vaping...
2020 Census: New jobs, complete count efforts and MENA
November 23rd, 20190 DETROIT — In a Wednesday teleconference, leaders from the U.S. Census Bureau briefed media outlets that serve the Middle Eastern/North African (MENA) communities on the status of the 2020 Census, describing the efforts underway for all people to be accurately counted and the opportunity for individuals to apply for temporary jobs......
Ibrahim Aljahim’s criminal sexual conduct charges dismissed without prejudice
November 21st, 20190 HAMTRAMCK — 31st District Court Judge Alexis G. Krot dismissed all criminal sexual conduct charges against prominent Yemeni community activist Ibrahim Aljahim on Thursday, concluding the now long running preliminary exam. The case was dismissed without prejudice, with Krot informing Wayne County prosecutors that they were free to...
Arab American leaders criticize Whitmer’s decision to ignore community concerns before departing for Israel
November 21st, 20190 DEARBORN — Arab American community leaders representing a wide group of civil rights advocates, political and local civic organizations held a press conference on Thursday, November 21 to express their strong disapproval of Governor Whitmer's trip to Israel this week and her decision to ignore their community concerns prior to......
Statement of Michigan Arab Americans regarding Gov. Whitmer’s trip to Israel
November 21st, 20192 DEARBORN — Governor Whitmer is currently visiting Israel. We Arab Americans became aware of this trip, like most Michiganders, from media reports this past Sunday, November 17, the same day she departed. Michigan is home to the largest concentration of Arab Americans in the United States, boasting several hundred thousand residents...
Attorney General Nessel announces second conviction in clergy abuse investigation
November 20th, 20190 LANSING — Just hours after the first convicted defendant in Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel's clergy abuse investigation was sentenced, Nessel announced the second conviction in her department's ongoing investigation. Brian Stanley, age 57, of Coloma, a city on the west side of the state near Lake Michigan, pleaded guilty to......
