August 30th, 20240The Arab American Civil Rights League filed a federal complaint against Customs and Border Protection after an officer questioned Taiba Elgattani, who wears a hijab and uses a wheelchair, for three hours in the Metro Detroit Airport before sending her back to where she lives in the U.K. without alerting her family.
Elgattani flew from...
July 5th, 20240Detroit City Councilwoman Mary Waters is running in the Democratic primary election for Michigan's 13th U.S. House District seat, which represents parts of Detroit, Hamtramck, Romulus, Allen Park, Grosse Pointe and more.
Voters elected Waters to the Detroit City Council as one of two at-large members in 2021, where she has since...
June 14th, 20240DETROIT – In another sign of Michigan's crucial role in the U.S. presidential race, Republican presumptive presidential candidate Donald Trump is expected to visit Detroit on Saturday, June 15. He is anticipated to participate in a roundtable discussion hosted by a local church in the northwest of the city and to be the keynote...
May 6th, 20240President Biden will return to Michigan this month to speak at the NAACP Detroit Branch's 69th annual Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner, his campaign confirmed Wednesday.
The announcement came ahead of a planned Wednesday night campaign rally in Freeland, about 14 miles northwest of Saginaw, by former President Trump, the presumptive...
March 15th, 20240WASHINGTON, D.C. – Starting Wednesday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in five U.S. cities started wearing body cameras as required by an executive order from President Biden.
ICE agents in Detroit, Philadelphia, Washington, Buffalo and Baltimore are wearing the cameras in the first phase of deployment for the...
March 15th, 20240DEARBORN – Starbucks cafés in the Dearborn area are witnessing an unprecedented decline in customers’ demand for the chain’s most famous products, just as they are elsewhere in the U.S and around the world. This decline comes in conjunction with continuing campaigns on social media platforms to boycott the company, which is...
December 1st, 20230LANSING – 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...
August 7th, 20230By David Sands
Woodbridge resident Mark Jones has always been curious about history, but lately he's been applying his interest to his own neighborhood.
Jones works as a data analyst with the city of Detroit. His specialty is working with geographic information systems (GIS), computer-based tools that can be used to collect,...
June 9th, 20230DETROIT — A Detroit gas station clerk allegedly shot and killed a man he claimed was a shoplifter as he was running from the station.
Reports state that police arrested the employee and shut down the business at that time.
The Mobil gas station located at Clark and Vernor was shut down by police Monday, June 5, following the...
June 9th, 20230DETROIT — Wildfires in Canada have emitted smoke into the United States, harming the air quality in many states, including Michigan.
According to the IQAir Air Quality Index, Detroit ranked second for worst air quality in the world on Wednesday morning. The Air Quality Index identifies air quality in different parts of the world...
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...
May 19th, 20230DETROIT — On Thursday, a gas station clerk who locked the gas station store door during a dispute with an armed customer over a small purchase was charged with involuntary manslaughter after the uproar led to the fatal shooting of another man.
Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy filed the charge against Al-Hassan Aiyash, 22, of...
May 1st, 20230DETROIT — The Custard Company, an Arab American-owned ice cream company, opened its third location in Little Caesars Arena (LCA) earlier this year.
Jamal Jawad, The Custard Company's CEO, opened the first Custard Company establishment in Dearborn in 2019.
Karim Kadouh, vice president of operations and marketing for The Custard...
May 1st, 20230DETROIT — The Detroit Wayne Integrated Health Network (DWIHN) has announced a comprehensive plan to ameliorate the treatment care capacity for behavioral health in Metro Detroit. The DWIHN has sought the state’s assistance to invest $227 million in both crisis care and residential housing.
This investment would address the mental...
March 11th, 20230DETROIT — The Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (DTW) has been named one of the most prominent airports in the United States, according to the 2022 Airport Service Quality (ASQ) awards.
The airport was awarded the ASQ award for the best airport of 25 to 40 million passengers in North America, according to the Airports...
November 19th, 20220By David Sands. All photos: Steve Koss
Bishop Daryl Harris has fond memories of his formative years in the area now known as Detroit's Osborn neighborhood. A longtime resident whose Total Life Christian Ministries church is headquartered there, he remembers when it was full of commerce and activity.
"Back in the '70s and '80s,...
November 18th, 20220DETROIT — Fresh off a double digit election victory over a Trump-backed candidate, Governor Whitmer spoke at the 50th anniversary gala for ACCESS in Detroit on Thursday.
More than 1,000 people attended the half-a-century celebration at the Marriott hotel in the Renaissance Center for an organization that began as a modest,...
November 18th, 20220NORTHVILLE TOWNSHIP — A Northville couple was killed early Sunday when their vehicle veered off the road, rolled over and crashed into a tree, police said.
In a Sunday news release, police identified the victims as 46-year-old Northville resident Dr. Omar Salamen and his 40-year-old wife, Manal Kadry.
The fatal crash happened just...
November 11th, 20220After the state lost a congressional seat from the census and with redistricting causing upheaval to the U.S. House maps, Democrats have broken the tie in the Congressional roster from Michigan and added two new faces.
After the Nov. 8 election, Michigan will have seven Democrats and six Republicans in the U.S. House of...
November 9th, 20220Democrats cleared victories with wide margins despite a renewed push by Republicans to make in-roads with voters, with the picture becoming clearer as election results came out of the Dearborn Clerk’s office Tuesday night.
With all precincts reporting in Dearborn, unofficial results from the Dearborn City Clerk showed comfortable...
November 3rd, 20220DETROIT — Metro Detroit artists are invited to apply for Kresge Artist Fellowships, now in its 15th year.
Kresge Artist Fellowships are $25,000 no strings attached awards, which include professional development support and the creation of a short film highlighting the artist’s work.
In 2023, Kresge Arts in Detroit — a...
October 14th, 20220LANSING – A former Dearborn priest has been convicted of criminal sexual conduct by a jury in Wayne County, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced on Thursday.
Joseph “Jack” Baker, 60, was convicted of first degree criminal sexual conduct — sexual penetration with a person under 13 — in Detroit’s Third Judicial...
October 8th, 20220By Zeinab A. Lecanu, special to The Arab American News
From a childhood marked by loneliness and want, Wayne State President M. Roy Wilson forged an extraordinary life of accomplishment and acclaim. His accomplishments include the presidencies of four universities, dean of two medical schools and deputy director of one of the National...
October 3rd, 20220By David Sands
Authorities were baffled by a geological incident that caused the ground itself to buckle in Detroit's Delray neighborhood last fall.
On the night of Sept. 11, 2021, the intersection of Dearborn and West Fort Street experienced a shifting of the ground that left a roughly eight-foot-high mound of earth. The upheaval...
September 30th, 20220DEARBORN — U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-Michigan) brought Robert Santos, the director of the U.S. Census Bureau, to Dearborn this week to meet with members of the local Arab American community and local officials.
The two visited Dearborn and Detroit on Monday for two roundtable meetings to discuss how to improve the process of...
September 27th, 20221DETROIT — The MIU (Michigan Institute of Urology) Men’s Health Foundation is hosting the 12th annual Men’s Health Event on Saturday, Oct. 8, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., at Ford Field in Detroit.
Metro Detroit-area men 18 years and older, with or without health insurance, are encouraged to take advantage of this free event focused on...
September 24th, 20220ROMULUS - The Wayne County Airport Authority (WCAA), which operates Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (DTW), is hosting a job fair on behalf of its concessionaires.
The event will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 27 at the Nomads Building – 10100 Middlebelt Road in Romulus.
The airport authority says...
September 23rd, 20220DETROIT - Officials from Huntington Bank joined Detroit, Wayne County and state officials on Wednesday for the grand opening of Huntington Tower, the first large new downtown Detroit building to be completed since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The tower was originally envisioned to be the headquarters for Chemical Bank,...
