December 6th, 20240On Sunday, President-elect Trump announced his selection of Lebanese American businessman Massad Boulos as his senior advisor for Arab and Middle Eastern affairs. This appointment has garnered significant attention from media outlets both within and outside the United States, including in the Arab world and in Boulos' homeland,...
December 6th, 20240The 2024 election is over, but the arguments about what it means are continuing. Did Donald Trump and the Republican Party win a mandate to govern as they wish? Did Democrats try too hard to appeal to their political base? Or not hard enough?
But drawing conclusions about the meaning of an election, especially about what it says about...
November 8th, 20240LANSING – Aside from businesswoman Denise Ilitch, who retained her seat on the University of Michigan Board of Regents, Democratic candidates for the boards of Michigan’s top three universities faced surprising losses, extending also to the State Board of Education, which oversees K-12 schooling.
In Tuesday’s elections, partisan...
November 3rd, 20240In a six-minute YouTube video posted on Oct. 28, titled Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said that a vote for Kamala Harris is the better choice for those angry about the war in Gaza.
“I understand that there are millions of Americans who disagree with President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on the terrible war in Gaza; I am one of...
November 1st, 20241Here is a brief look at some of their policies as published by Reuters:
Vice President Harris, a Democrat, faces former President Trump, a Republican, in the 2024 U.S. presidential election race that may be decided by a thin sliver of votes in seven battleground states. The two are sharply divided on the role the U.S. government should...
November 1st, 20243I was surprised to read of the reaction of some Arab Americans to VP Harris’ candidacy for president in “Harris, Trump campaigns continue their covert efforts to sway Arab and Muslim voters despite their overtly strong support for Israel.”
Apparently, many think they will “punish” the Biden administration by voting for Trump....
November 1st, 20240Dear Mr. Siblani,
I've been thinking about your statement in the recent Politico article and decided to write.
Your community is being presented a rare opportunity due to the outsize power of its voting bloc this election. This might not come again.
Yet rather than leveraging it, you’d prefer to just keep protesting? Politics are...
November 1st, 20240Dear editor,
I am a Jew, born and raised in Detroit. I urge and feel it essential that fellow Detroiters and the Arab community to vote to elect Kamala Harris for president. Michigan can deliver the presidency to either Harris or Trump. If the Arab community, once a stalwart of Democratic support, refrains from voting for president or...
November 1st, 20240In a few days, we Americans will become accustomed to the “F” word for the next four (or more) years. There exists a possibility that for the first time in the 250 years of its existence as a republic, a fascist will be installed as president of the United States!
It sounds ominously hysterical, hyperbolic and overblown, but wait...
November 1st, 20241Irrespective of the colors of past, present and future U.S. administrations, the U.S. policy in the Middle East was and will remain biased against Arabs and their causes for at least the foreseeable future.
The U.S. administration’s unlimited diplomatic and military support for Israel wasn’t only dictated by the organized...
November 1st, 20240DEARBORN – On the eve of the Nov. 5 presidential election, the Arab American Political Action Committee (AAPAC) held its 27th annual banquet at the Byblos Banquet Hall in Dearborn Wednesday. Many government, judicial and community figures from the Detroit area attended the event, emphasizing the importance of higher voter turnout among...
November 1st, 20240Pissed off over President Biden’s unquestioned support for Israel’s war upon Gaza? Feel that Biden is complicit in genocide against the Palestinian people? Angry at Kamala Harris for being part of the Biden administration and want to blame her for the suffering of the Palestinians?
Understandable feelings, justified anger. So, what...
September 20th, 20240
Vice President Harris and former President Trump remain deadlocked less than seven weeks before the Nov. 5 presidential election, according to new polls released on Thursday that also show a tight race in the key state of Pennsylvania.
While the surveys found likely and registered voters gave higher marks to Democrat Harris in last...
September 20th, 20241DEARBORN – Departing from its usual practice of holding its annual conference in Washington, D.C., the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) chose to hold its national conference this year in Dearborn. The event featured presidential candidates, academic scholars, human rights activists, journalists and religious leaders,...
August 30th, 20240
Democrat Kamala Harris leads Republican Donald Trump 45 percent to 41 percent in a Reuters/Ipsos poll published on Thursday that showed the vice president sparking new enthusiasm among voters and shaking up the race ahead of the Nov. 5 election.
The 4 percentage point advantage among registered voters was wider than a 1 point lead...
August 30th, 20240Kamala Harris' campaign for president has hired an Egyptian American lawyer and former Department of Homeland Security official to help lead outreach to Arab American voters who hold sway in some states that could help decide the Nov. 5 election, the campaign said on Wednesday.
Brenda Abdelall would be tasked with shoring up support...
August 9th, 20240The primary elections for Michigan's 13 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives varied in intensity, resulting in all current representatives winning their respective elections on Tuesday. Competition significantly decreased in districts with Arab American candidates.
The 13th Congressional District was the most contentious, with...
August 9th, 20240DETROIT – Voters in Wayne County renewed their confidence in Democratic officials in Tuesday's elections, alongside approving two proposals on the ballot: The renewal of the property tax (millage) dedicated to funding public parks and amendments to the county's auditing provisions. Wayne County has a population of approximately 1.74...
August 9th, 20240The results of the primary elections held on Tuesday have set the stage for the U.S. Senate race in Michigan, with both Democratic U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin and former Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers advancing after defeating their opponents in the primaries.
Slotkin, a resident of Holly, decisively won the Democratic primary race...
August 2nd, 20240The political and social tensions stemming from the fierce competition in the presidential race, as well as the support of most American officials and elected representatives for the brutal war that Israel has been waging on the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip for almost 10 months — which was blatantly highlighted last Wednesday during...
July 26th, 20240HAMTRAMCK – District 7 of the Michigan House of Representatives, which includes the cities of Hamtramck and Highland Park and parts of East Detroit, is witnessing a heated primary race among three Democratic candidates vying to succeed the current representative for the district, Arab American Abraham Aiyash.
Aiyash has decided not...
July 13th, 20240Frustrated with President Biden’s support for Israel, Bishara Bahbah, Ph.D., founded Arab Americans for Trump to rally support for former President Trump in Michigan and Arizona.
“The Arab and Muslim American communities will not, in any way, form or shape, ever vote for Biden,” Bahbah said. “Biden is complicit in the genocide...
July 13th, 20240WASHINGTON, D.C. — Joe Biden failed another test on Thursday that he was trying to avoid so far this year — a solo news conference with questions from the White House press corps.
The news conference was meant to reassure an increasing disheartened group of Democratic lawmakers, allies and persuadable voters in this year’s...
May 31st, 20240
Donald Trump became the first U.S. president to be convicted of a crime on Thursday when a New York jury found him guilty of falsifying documents to cover up a payment to silence a porn star ahead of the 2016 election.
After two days of deliberation, the 12-member jury pronounced Trump guilty on all 34 felony counts he...
May 31st, 20240LANSING – Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson's Office declared that nine Congressional candidates failed to submit enough valid petition signatures to make the primary ballot in August, according to reports released Friday afternoon, May 24.
The determinations, if confirmed by the Board of State Canvassers next week, could whittle...
May 24th, 20240DEARBORN – Two seats on the Dearborn Public Schools Board of Education are up for election in November.
Interested candidates have until July 23 at 4 p.m. to file their paperwork with the Dearborn City Clerk’s Office. Packets with the required paperwork can be picked up at the City Clerk’s Office, 16901 Michigan Ave., or at...
March 8th, 20241On Thursday, The Islamic House of Wisdom in Dearborn Heights hosted Dr. Jill Stein, the Green Party presidential candidate, for an evening of community discussion.
Stein, 73, a three-time Green Party presidential candidate, said as president she would immediately call for a ceasefire in Gaza.
“The president can make a phone...
March 8th, 20240By Selen Ozturk
At a Feb. 22 briefing held by Houston Ethnic Media, AJ Durrani — treasurer of Emgage Texas and the first Muslim American to serve on the Democratic National Committee — highlighted record national and state-level increases in the Muslim vote, and its impact in light of the 2024 elections.
Expanding the Muslim...
