Local businesses and Dearborn officials organize COVID-19 essentials giveaway

June 18th, 20200 Dearborn — Dearborn officials have come together with local businesses to organize a COVID-19 essentials giveaway. On Saturday, June 20, the Bint Jebail Cultural Center, in partnership with Comerica Bank, the Dearborn Police Department and Dearborn Fresh Market, will be holding the community drive-by giveaway of COVID-19...

Community celebrates two doctors’ profound achievements in medicine

February 19th, 20200 DEARBORN — Brothers Mohamad and Ali Bydon were guests of honor at a packed dinner celebration on Saturday, Feb. 15, where members of Michigan’s Arab American community gathered to acknowledge recent remarkable medical achievements by two of their own. Both brothers have made significant achievements in their fields. Mohamad is...

Community mourns Mohammed Turfe, a founder and leader

April 5th, 20190 DEARBORN — The local Arab American community is mourning the loss of one of its influential and successful leaders, Mohammed Turfe, who died at the age of 88 on Wednesday, March 27 after a two-year battle with pancreatic cancer. Turfe, who was born in Detroit in January 1931, was one of the main founders of the Islamic Center of...