June 25th, 20200STERLING HEIGHTS — Michigan-born, Arab American attorney Mike Chehab has put his name in the running for state representative in District 30. The district covers Utica and parts of Shelby Township and Sterling Heights.
The grandson of a World War I veteran, Chehab has spent all his life in Macomb County, which is home to a...
May 23rd, 20200DEARBORN — The University of Michigan-Dearborn was set to induct a Dearborn sporting legend, Ibrahim “Juice” Baydoun, into its Athletic Hall of Fame for the Class of 2020 on June 7. Only the second such class to be given that honor, the ceremony may be postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic, but that doesn’t take away from...
July 29th, 20190DETROIT - The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Detroit Field Office has appointed Mary Jordan Abouljoud to its community outreach team as a community outreach specialist.
Abouljoud joins the FBI after working in the public and private sector as an accountant specializing in taxation. She has also served on the executive...
June 22nd, 20190SOUTHFIELD – The Lebanese Consulate in Detroit is an active and contributing member in the community, with Suzan Mouzi-Yassine as its consul general and the head of the mission. In an interview with The Arab American News, Mouzi-Yassine explained the various services the Consulate offers to the large Lebanese American community in...
March 29th, 20190Surf guitarist and music legend Dick Dale passed away on Saturday, March 16. Born Richard Anthony Mansour to a Lebanese father and Polish American mother, Dale was diagnosed with rectal cancer in 2008. He had been battling the disease while actively touring to pay for medical bills.
Dale grew up in Boston. His family soon moved to...
February 13th, 20190LOS ANGELES — Leila Milki, a first-generation Lebanese American music artist, will release her new original single and video on Friday Feb. 22.
In “All That Remains", 25-year-old Milki collaborates with Brian Steckler and String Mob to bring a string quartet to life.
“This project is deeply personal to me,” she said, adding...
November 9th, 20181FLORIDA – Democratic candidate Donna Shalala won the seat vacated by retiring Republican Ileana Ros-Lehtinen in Florida’s 27th Congressional District, with 51.7 percent of the votes, defeating her Republican opponent, Maria Elvira Salazar, who received 45 percent of the votes, to flip a House seat that has long been targeted by...
October 26th, 20180DEARBORN— Ibrahim Souedan, a 59-year-old husband and father to five, is currently facing deportation back to his homeland of Lebanon. According to his lawyer, he has no criminal record, but Souedan was an FBI informant who helped to convict a man associated with Hezbollah, a predominately Shi’a political party based in...
May 11th, 20180SAN JOSE, CA — A Lebanese-American police officer in San Jose filed a claim against the city and his employer after enduring years of harassment based on his ethnicity and religion.
Oakland’s KTVU reported Tuesday that San Jose police officer Nabil Haidar, a 22-year veteran of SJPD and a Muslim, endured taunts about his religion...
November 23rd, 20170DEARBORN — Lebanese American student Nadine Jawad, 21, might be the first Arab American from Dearborn to receive one of the most prestigious fellowship awards in the world, the Rhodes scholarship.
Jawad, a senior at the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, is one of 32 American Rhodes scholars chosen for...
September 11th, 20170Washington — Republican Rep. Dave Trott (R-Birmingham) said Monday he will retire from Congress at the end of his second term and return to the private sector.
“Our country’s Founding Fathers envisioned a government where citizens leave private life, serve for a brief time, and then return home to their communities," Trott said...
