December 1st, 20232LANSING – Governor Whitmer has reappointed Portia Roberson, of Detroit, and Zenna Faraj Elhasan, of Dearborn, to serve second four-year terms on the Michigan Civil Rights Commission. Both Roberson and Elhasan were originally appointed to the Commission in December of 2019, with their first terms ending this year on December 31. Their...
December 1st, 20231DETROIT – A 28-year-old gas station store clerk from Dearborn will not be charged in connection to the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Yaqoub Nagi from Detroit, according to the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office.
The clerk acted in "lawful self-defense" when he fatally shot Nagi at a Citgo gas station in Detroit, the Prosecutor's...
December 1st, 20231WASHINGTON, D.C. – More than a dozen state lawmakers and activists in the U.S. — including actor Cynthia Nixon from Sex and the City — have started a hunger strike calling for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza.
The five state lawmakers taking part in the hunger strike beginning Monday are Delaware State Rep. Madinah Wilson-Anton, New...
December 1st, 20231BURLINGTON, VT — A suspect has been arrested following the shooting of three college students of Palestinian descent in Burlington, Vermont. The students were seriously injured following the shooting. Authorities are investigating it as a potential hate crime, according to reports.
The shooting occurred last Saturday evening...
December 1st, 20230Nasser Beydoun, a Dearborn resident and a Democrat seeking the U.S. Senate seat of retiring Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), said he was offered campaign contributions of $20 million to quit the senate race and run against Democratic U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Dearborn) in the 2024 Democratic primary.
Beydoun, a well known businessman...
December 1st, 20230On Thursday, progressive lawmakers, activists and advocacy groups voiced their outrage at MSNBC’s decision to cancel a show hosted by Medhi Hasan, claiming that the network was seeking to silence one of its most prominent Muslim on-air personalities.
“It is bad optics for MSNBC to cancel @mehdirhasan’s show right at a time when he...
November 24th, 20230Democratic U.S. senate candidate Hill Harper said he rejected a $20 million offer in campaign contributions from a Michigan businessman to pull out of the senate race and run against U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Detroit) in 2024.
According to Harper, he declined the offer from the alleged donor, Linden Nelson, which would have split the...
November 24th, 20230While the city of Detroit joined the growing list of American cities in solidarity with the Palestinian people, communities and students in the Detroit area continued their protest activities against the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip for the seventh week in a row.
A student demonstration at the University of Michigan resulted in...
November 16th, 20231On February 15, 2018, the University of Michigan-Dearborn announced the appointment of Domenico Grasso as a new chancellor after a meeting of the Board of Regents. Since the fall of that year, the sixth chancellor has been a very dynamic leader, making significant contributions to higher education, environmental research, diversity and...
November 3rd, 20230WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Thursday, the White House said it was exploring a series of ceasefires in the Israeli war on Gaza to help people safely exit Gaza and allow humanitarian aid to get in, but reiterated its opposition to a full ceasefire.
National security spokesperson John Kirby told reporters that such pauses should be temporary...
October 28th, 20230LANSING — On Thursday, October 26, Governor Whitmer announced the appointments of Lawrence Elassal to the Third Circuit Court in Wayne County, Matthew Wiese to the 25th Circuit Court in Marquette County and Monique Sharpe to the 36th District Court in Detroit.
“Today, I am honored to appoint three qualified legal professionals...
October 11th, 20230Harassment of American Muslims while flying has been a persistent problem since the expansion of the national security apparatus post 9/11. Racial and religious profiling by federal agents at airports to citizens being placed on watchlists without any means of due process are ongoing civil rights challenges for our community. Despite Mr....
August 18th, 20230DEARBORN HEIGHTS – On Wednesday, a few days after coming in third place in the Aug. 8 primary election and advancing to the November general election, Dearborn Heights City Council Vice Chair Ray Muscat announced his resignation, citing "health reasons."
Muscat's resignation opens the door to a number of questions related to the...
August 12th, 20230DEARBORN HEIGHTS – In the Dearborn Heights City Council primary elections held on Tuesday, four Arab Americans out of six candidates qualified for the general elections on November 7. The six candidates will compete for the three open seats in November. The City Council will at least have one new member, due to the decision of Council...
August 12th, 20230DEARBORN — The kept-secret recent visit of State Senator Sylvia Santana to Israel sparked widespread outrage and disappointment among local Arab Americans, who makes up about 65 percent of the district she represents in the Lansing, which includes the cities of Dearborn and Dearborn Heights, as well as parts of Allen Park and...
July 25th, 20230News last week that the U.S. and Israel were about to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) advancing Israel’s entry into the U.S. Visa Waiver Program (VWP) shouldn’t have caught us by surprise. But it did. For months, we had been assured by various Biden administration officials that Israel could not meet the requirements of the...
July 14th, 20230DEARBORN – In a murder that shook the Arab American community, an unlicensed local dentist shot and killed one of his patients in his home in the west side of Dearborn after midnight on July 6, according to preliminary investigations and a Dearborn Police report.
Zayed Albodour, 52, was arraigned last Sunday in front of 19th...
May 26th, 20230By Mohamad Moslimani
Arabic has become a much more widely spoken language in the United States in recent decades. The number of people ages 5 and older who speak Arabic at home in the U.S. rose from 215,000 in 1980 to 1.4 million in 2021, making it the nation’s seventh-most common non-English language spoken at home. Arabic speakers...
February 10th, 20230DEARBORN — A reception celebrating the growing political involvement of the Arab community in the state of Michigan took place last Monday at LaPita Banquet Center in honor of the majority floor leader in the Michigan House of Representatives and the state representatives who represent Dearborn, Dearborn Heights, Hamtramck and parts of...
January 27th, 20230WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Biden administration is proposing major changes to forms for the 2030 Census and federal government surveys that would transform how Latinos and people of Middle Eastern or North African descent are counted in statistics across the United States.
A new checkbox for "Middle Eastern or North African" and a...
January 13th, 20230DEARBORN — Attorney Amanda Atwy has been hired as one of the prosecutors for the city of Dearborn.
She attended Cooley Law School and started working for Dearborn's legal department as a law clerk in her second year of law school. She also completed her required externship in law school at the 19th District Court. There she worked...
December 24th, 20220December 18 marked the 10th United Nations World Arabic Language Day, which celebrates the language spoken by more than 300 million people, primarily in the Middle East and North Africa. Arabic is also the fastest-growing language in the United States, according to Census data.
Arabic has become the eighth-most taught language in U.S....
December 16th, 20220DEARBORN — A very excited crowd banged drums and waved mostly Moroccan flags during Wednesday's World Cup semifinal watch party, hosted by Mayor Abdullah Hammoud at the Michael A. Guido Theater.
The Morocco fans — nearly everyone in attendance — were unwaveringly optimistic, cheering each time the Morocco team dribbled the ball...
December 10th, 20220
By Robert MacArthur, MD
Healthcare disparities are preventable differences in healthcare status, access and quality experienced by many consumers due to a variety of factors, including race, ethnicity, income, gender, neighborhood, language and education. For example, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human...
December 9th, 20220
DEARBORN — Oakman Child Care Learning Ladder celebrated the grand opening of its third location in Dearborn at Hubbard and Mercury Drive on Monday, December 5.
Samera Ajami is the sole owner of all three locations. She opened her first location is East Dearborn in 2012 and the second in Detroit in 2019.
All three...
December 6th, 20220
On Thursday, Wayne County Executive Warren Evans announced that he will be presenting Dr. Abdul El-Sayed to the County Commission for its approval as a project consultant working with the County's Health, Human and Veterans Services Department (HHVS). El-Sayed will take over as director, pending Wayne County Commission...
November 25th, 20223A Northville couple who died in a late-night rollover crash Nov. 12 were remembered and honored in an online memorial service last Monday night.
Manal Kadry and her husband, Dr. Omar Salamen, died after their car left the road as the driver attempted to navigate a turn near their neighborhood, Northville police said. Police said the...
November 19th, 20220By Peter White
Despite new laws to keep people from voting and gerrymandering election districts to take away the power of minority communities, the Republican “red wave” that pollsters predicted ahead of last week’s midterms didn’t happen.
Ethnic Media Services debriefed six experts on their reactions to the election...