December 4th, 20190DEARBORN 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...
November 27th, 20192DEARBORN 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,...
November 2nd, 20190The following editorial is a collaboration between our newsroom and our editorial board:
Voters from Dearborn, Dearborn Heights, Inkster, Hamtramck and many of the surrounding communities in Southeast Michigan will go to the polls this Tuesday to exercise their constitutionally protected right and to perform their duty of voting on...
November 2nd, 20190DEARBORN HEIGHTS – At a hearing in the Third Circuit Court in Detroit last Friday, October 25, Judge Muriel Hughes denied three motions by Dearborn Heights Mayor Daniel Paletko in an ongoing legal battle between him and the majority members of the Dearborn Heights City Council.
Paletko told The Arab American News that he plans to...
October 21st, 20190DEARBORN HEIGHTS - In 2018, the Michigan Safe Drinking Water Act (MSDWA) was changed to include more stringent procedures for testing and analysis for lead and copper. The new regulations are intended to have a more proactive approach in monitoring each community’s lead and copper levels.
Since 1992, the City of Dearborn Heights,...
September 8th, 20190DEARBORN HEIGHTS - The city of Dearborn Heights has been looking for its new superintendent and board members ask the community to keep its timeline in mind.
Trustee Nadia Berry told The Arab American News that the board started accepting applications August 9 and will continue until September 13. The selection for the candidate will...
August 26th, 20190DEARBORN HEIGHTS — Collaboration and discussion on drug abuse was the message Tuesday at a town hall in the Islamic House of Wisdom.
Detroit City Councilman Roy McCalister Jr. and the Mental Health Task Force held a public meeting where community members and professionals expressed ideas of raising awareness on drug abuse and...
August 23rd, 20191"Land of the free and home of the brave" — This sentence would have a stronger ring to it when people learn about their rights as Americans, regardless of their race.
People in the Arab American community — like many other minority groups — have been dealing their version of discrimination based on race. With a series of...
August 17th, 20190DEARBORN HEIGHTS - While incumbents on the Dearborn Heights' City Council were happy about the results of the August 6 election, candidate Jamal Bazzi has asked for a recount of the votes, which will take place next week.
"I believe that there was a mistake somewhere along the line," Bazzi told The Arab American News.
"The reason I...
August 3rd, 20190DEARBORN HEIGHTS - Voters in the Crestwood School District will decide the fate of a hike in the district’s 18-mill operational millage that would impact all property except exempt principal residences.
Should it pass, this increase would only affect businesses and rental properties and not homes.
The ballot states that “shall...
July 29th, 20190DEARBORN HEIGHTS — iHeart Media will present the second annual Michigan Culture and Diversity Festival next month. The festival aims to promote and celebrate the state's culture and diversity.
The festivities will take place from August 22-25 at the HYPE Athletics Center in Dearborn Heights.
According to HYPE founder and CEO Ali...
July 20th, 20190DEARBORN HEIGHTS – Dearborn Heights has a new ordinance that limits the number of hookah licenses issued in the city to seven. There are currently seven active licenses in the city. The ordinance also has spacing requirements and restrictions on business hours, requiring lounges to be closed between 2 a.m. and 8 a.m.
Anyone wishing...
July 4th, 20190ROCHESTER - Since its inception in 1985, Rochester based charity organization Rainbow Connection has made wishes come true for thousands of children with life threatening medical conditions in Michigan.
The charity began when Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson organized a memorial golf outing to raise scholarship funds in...
June 14th, 20190Dearborn Heights – Councilman Dave Abdallah kicked off his campaign to be reelected to the Dearborn Heights City Council on Wednesday.
The event, held at Bellagio Banquet Hall in Dearborn Heights, hosted several city officials and community members. Supporters and well-wishers included The Arab American News Publisher Osama Siblani,...
June 14th, 20190DEARBORN HEIGHTS – Attorney and AAPAC president Mona Fadlallah was appointed a part-time magistrate in the 20th District Court this week.
The appointment was made by District Court Chief Judge David D. Turfe and vote for 6 to 0 by the City Council on Tuesday May 11. Councilman Bill Bazzi abstained from the vote due to conflict of...
June 10th, 20191Dearborn Heights – Several residents raised concerns about parking, noise and hostile mosque attendees at the May 28 City Council meeting, following the three-day Ramadan Night of Power festivities.
The residents, who all reside within a few blocks of the Islamic Institute of America (IAA) at Ford Road and Kinloch Street in Dearborn...
June 10th, 20190DEARBORN HEIGHTS — Community members and many attendees from other towns celebrated the farewell weekend of the Ramadan Suhoor Festival, making its second appearance at the Hype Center on West Warren Avenue.
Starting out as a pop-up festival, the Ramadan Suhoor Festival morphed into four weekends of food, celebration and unity...
May 24th, 20190DEARBORN HEIGHTS – After almost a year of harassment by their next-door neighbors, Jamal and Hind Hourani and their 7-year-old son were finally offered some justice in the city’s 20th District Court this week.
On Monday afternoon, Christie Ann Klein was found guilty of two separate counts of breaching of the peace at a bench...
May 10th, 20190DEARBORN HEIGHTS — On Saturday, May 4, public officials, religious and community leaders came together in the Islamic Institute of America (IIA) to commemorate the innocent people who were brutally beheaded by the Saudi regime.
Saudi Arabia beheaded 37 of its citizens on April 23, in the largest mass execution the country has...
May 3rd, 20190DEARBORN — A 39-year-old Dearborn Heights resident has been charged with two counts of prostitution and engaging the services of a minor, a 16-year-old student at a Dearborn High School, last November and December.
Omar Maher Taji was arraigned in 19th District Court on March 9 in Judge Gene Hunt’s courtroom and released on a...
May 3rd, 20190DEARBORN HEIGHTS — The second annual Ramadan Suhour Festival in Dearborn Heights makes its debut at the Hype Center on West Warren Ave.
Hassan Chami, who organized the first event last year, said it’s common for people and vendors to congregate outdoors during Ramadan.
“I thought, ‘Since this is going on and everyone’s...
May 3rd, 20190DETROIT – Gov. Whitmer and Wayne County Executive Warren Evans declared a state of emergency at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, following widespread flooding and damage to approximately 3,000 homes in the county.
“I want to commend the first responders, volunteers and residents who have pulled together to respond to the devastation caused...
April 25th, 20190DEARBORN HEIGHTS — The American Educational Foundation (AEF) held its second annual awards gala on Thursday, April 19, at the Bellagio Banquet in Dearborn Heights, inviting hundreds of business and community officials and future student leaders for a celebration of community and scholarship.
The gala recognized seniors graduating...
March 29th, 20190DEARBORN HEIGHTS — On Sunday, March 31, Who is Hussain — Michigan (WIH) will partner with healthcare professionals across Wayne County to host a completely free medical camp at the Islamic House of Wisdom from 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Who is Hussain is a global movement founded in 2012 and it currently leads more than 60...
March 9th, 20190DETROIT — Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy has charged Daylon Jamar Wooten, 16, of Dearborn Heights in connection with the homicide of James Newman, 17, of Inkster.
Wooten was charged as an adult designated. This means that if he's convicted, the judge can determine at the sentencing hearing whether he'll be sentenced as a...
February 22nd, 20190DEARBORN HEIGHTS— Sara Raad, a Dearborn Heights native and daughter of Lebanese immigrants, said she writes poetry to heal from past trauma.
She reads her poetry at local events and posts it on her Instagram blog which has more than 11,000 followers.
“I used to just write little poems here and there,” she said, adding...
January 18th, 20190LANSING — Betty Jean Alexander worked as a clerical specialist at the Wayne County Clerk’s office this time last year. She made $16 an hour, qualified for food stamps and took the bus to work.
Now, after a surprising primary election win last fall, the 53-year-old Detroiter and single mother of two daughters is a state senator....
November 30th, 20180DEARBORN HEIGHTS — Red Effect Infrared Fitness opened a new women-exclusive location on Ford Road in Dearborn Heights on Friday Nov. 23, the first of its kind for the chain with more than 300 franchises sold and in development.
Allie Mallad, owner of Red Effect, said he came up with the idea two years ago just after he began the...
