December 27th, 20190NORTHVILLE — Fine fabrics, stylish and often lavish suits, pants, jackets and shoes adorn a beautiful and classy interior at Alexander’s Custom Clothiers in a chic Northville shopping and commercial neighborhood.
Though miles away from the Arab American hubs of Dearborn and Dearborn Heights, the town has its own connections with...
December 21st, 20190LANSING — Governor Whitmer announced several new commission appointments on Wednesday, including one for former Arab American Political Action Committee (AAPAC) Vice President Zenna Faraj Elhasan. She will be serving as a commissioner on The Michigan Civil Rights Commission beginning in January.
Elhasan and her family are...
December 21st, 20190DEARBORN – 10 residents of Dearborn and Dearborn Heights have been indicted under the Eastern District Court of Michigan for defrauding pharmaceutical companies in an elaborate scheme involving co-pay assistance reimbursement claims.
The indictment alleges that the 10 conspirators worked together to defraud pharmaceutical...
December 13th, 20193DEARBORN — The city of Dearborn unveiled a new look this week. Reactions from Dearbornites to their city’s new image ranged from utter disappointment, confusion and complete ambivalence to positive reactions to the fledgling and diverse new rebranding project.
Much was made of the city’s introduction of its new, more modern...
November 23rd, 20190DETROIT — 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...
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 – A drug house in Detroit near the city's border with Dearborn that had a known Arab American clientele was raided on Thursday by the Wayne County Sheriff's Office.
As drug overdoses prove to be a public health epidemic in the Arab American community, with recent tragedies showing Dearborn and Dearborn Heights to be...
October 23rd, 20190DEARBORN - October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and the founder of CURE Physical Therapy, Dr. Antima Gupta, will be conducting a Free Yoga Event for Breast Cancer Awareness called Care by CURE on October 26 at 1 p.m., at the Ford Community & Performing Arts Center in Dearborn.
After working at Beaumont Hospital in Dearborn for...
October 20th, 20190DEARBORN — Members of the greater Dearborn area public met for a rationalist meeting of the minds last Wednesday in the Annex of the Arab American Museum on Michigan Avenue at the first annual Alnadwa Free Thinking Society Dinner.
Honorees and speakers covered a wide array of topics relating to scientific rationalist thinking, free...
September 23rd, 20190DEARBORN — After recent armed robberies and deaths, crime and safety enforcement were two main topics at a neighborhood association meeting this past Wednesday evening at the Hajj Jamil Community Center. They’re also issues that impact almost every neighborhood in Dearborn.
Held by the Aviation Property Owners Association...
September 23rd, 20190DEARBORN — After working at Beaumont Hospital in Dearborn for more than 20 years, Dr. Antima Gupta, a physical therapist who graduated with a doctorate from Wayne State University, opened Cure Physical Therapy in Dearborn, a clinic that specializes in women's health and wellness.
Gupta told The Arab American News that she has been...
September 19th, 20190DEARBORN – At approximately 2 p.m. on Thursday, Dearborn Police responded to a call about a man down at the train tracks south of Michigan Ave. between Mason and Monroe.
Dearborn Police and Fire personnel found an Amtrak passenger train stopped on the tracks and a 52-year-old Dearborn resident injured on the ground.
First...
September 16th, 20190DEARBORN - The Dearborn Police Department need help identifying a male and a female suspect who are wanted in connection with the armed robbery of a Dearborn resident on September 12.
Dearborn Police officers responded to the 7700 block of Indiana shortly after midnight on Thursday to respond to a report of an armed...
September 13th, 20191DEARBORN – Few personalities have had a bigger impact on the civic standing and political relations of Arab Americans in Metro Detroit than longtime attorney and Dearbornite Abed Hammoud.
Hammoud’s dynamic career, with decades of professional legal experience at both the state and federal levels, reflects the social and political...
September 13th, 20190DEARBORN – The Museum Guild of Dearborn’s seventh annual beer tasting fundraiser event will return this year on Friday, September 27 from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. at the Dearborn Historical Museum’s Ross-McFadden House.
Tickets for the event are $20 in advance, or $25 at the door, and include admission, live entertainment and the...
September 8th, 20190DEARBORN – A free document shredding will take place on Saturday, September 14 from 8 a.m. until noon at the Department of Public Works yard.
This event is only open for Dearborn residents and proof of residency will be required. There is a limit of five office sized boxes of personal documents per person, with a maximum weight...
September 3rd, 20190DEARBORN – The city of Dearborn’s Meals on Wheels program is seeking volunteers to assist with both packaging and delivering food to Dearborn residents enrolled in the program.
The Meals on Wheels program is a Wayne County initiative, facilitated in Dearborn by the Senior Services Division. It serves home-bound seniors who do not...
August 31st, 20190DEARBORN — In the spirit of giving, appreciation and the rooted historic Lebanese presence in the United States of America, Suzan Mouzi-Yassine, the Michigan-based Lebanese counsel general in the Midwest, decided to end her diplomatic service to the Lebanese Americans in Michigan by planting a cedar tree in Birmingham, where she...
August 30th, 20190BEIRUT — After The Arab American News published an article about "Islamophobia in the motherland", Coral Beach Hotel & Resort Marketing Manager Rana Younes reached out to us for a follow up apology and clarification.
The article focused on Marwan Faraj, a Dearborn man who visited Lebanon this summer with his family. He said...
August 26th, 20190DEARBORN - “Music Under the Stars”, the Dearborn Recreation & Parks Department’s free concert series, continues with Fifty Amp Fuse performing Thursday, August 22, and the Dearborn Big Band on Thursday, September 12. Both concerts will be at the Dearborn Hills Golf Course and start at 7:30 p.m.
Patrons are encouraged to...
August 26th, 20190DEARBORN – The Ford Community and Performing Arts Center will be undergoing maintenance and most portions of the building will be closed from August 26 to September 2.
The closed portions include the gymnasiums, pools, fitness area, the Michael A. Guido Theater Box Office and the Senior Services Office.
During these days, the...
August 26th, 20190DEARBORN - On Tuesday, August 20, Dearborn City Council voted not to renew its prisoner housing contract with Calhoun County after a decade-long arrangement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to hold detainees.
This agreement was caused from controversy over detentions of undocumented immigrants by ICE.
The contract...
August 24th, 20190DEARBORN – Recent unofficial reports of drug overdoses among Arab Americans in Dearborn have raised concerns over the prevalence of substance abuse and addiction.
Opioid addiction has been recognized as a public health crisis in Michigan and the Arab American community has been directly affected for some time.
According to...
August 24th, 20190DEARBORN – With the new school year beginning on Monday, August 26, Mayor Jack O’Reilly, Jr. has directed the Dearborn Police Department to increase traffic enforcement.
The strict traffic enforcement will serve to protect students from speeders, stop-sign runners and inattentive drivers.
Officers will focus on streets used...
August 17th, 20190DEARBORN — Extending the emphasis on critical languages and global empowerment, teachers from across the state of Michigan gathered to expand on their techniques and to increase the effective resources of conveying Arabic as a critical language.
STARTALK, a federal grant program funded by the National Security Agency and...
July 29th, 20191DEARBORN – The owner of the controversial Israeli burger franchise Burgerim, slated to operate on the border of Detroit and Dearborn, is abandoning his plans to open its new location.
Sam Zahr, a Lebanese American and Dearborn resident, decided to open the restaurant after the success of the franchise in another Metro Detroit...
July 13th, 20190DEARBORN – Governor Whitmer was in Dearborn this week for an expanded presentation of her 2020 budget proposal.
To little surprise, infrastructure spending was a focus of her talk at the Ford Community and Performing Arts Center. She later sat down with The Arab American News for an exclusive interview about the budget and the...
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...
