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State lawmakers and activists stage hunger strike calling for ceasefire in Gaza Palestine

State lawmakers and activists stage hunger strike calling for ceasefire in Gaza

December 1st, 20231 WASHINGTON, 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...
MSNBC faces mounting outrage for canceling Mehdi Hasan's show Community

MSNBC faces mounting outrage for canceling Mehdi Hasan’s show

December 1st, 20230 On 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...
White House suggests "pauses" in Israel's war on Gaza to get people out Palestine

White House suggests “pauses” in Israel’s war on Gaza to get people out

November 3rd, 20230 WASHINGTON, 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...
Biden administration must fix reentry harassment of Muslims Community

Biden administration must fix reentry harassment of Muslims

October 11th, 20230 Harassment 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....
For Arab Americans, blue is not blue Opinions

For Arab Americans, blue is not blue

July 25th, 20230 News 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...
Five facts about Arabic speakers in the U.S. Community

Five facts about Arabic speakers in the U.S.

May 26th, 20230 By 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...
Arab Americans celebrate achievements of leadership in the State House in presence of the lieutenant governor, house speaker and local officials Community

Arab Americans celebrate achievements of leadership in the State House in presence of the lieutenant governor, house speaker and local officials

February 10th, 20230 DEARBORN — 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...
Amanda Atwy hired as a prosecutor for the city of Dearborn Community

Amanda Atwy hired as a prosecutor for the city of Dearborn

January 13th, 20230 DEARBORN — 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...
U.N. World Arabic Language Day: Americans’ desire to learn Arabic grows Art & Culture

U.N. World Arabic Language Day: Americans’ desire to learn Arabic grows

December 24th, 20220 December 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....
Dearborn crowd celebrates Morocco's soccer semifinal match despite loss Art & Culture

Dearborn crowd celebrates Morocco’s soccer semifinal match despite loss

December 16th, 20220 DEARBORN — 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...
Addressing health disparities in Michigan with an uncommon approach to care Health

Addressing health disparities in Michigan with an uncommon approach to care

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...
Oakman Child Care Learning Ladder opens third location in Dearborn Community

Oakman Child Care Learning Ladder opens third location in Dearborn

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...
Voters of color and women saved the Democrats from disaster Elections

Voters of color and women saved the Democrats from disaster

November 19th, 20220 By 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...
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