Dearborn Department of Public Health to provide free menstrual products to high schools

August 24th, 20220 DEARBORN — The Dearborn Department of Public Health (DPH) announced a new program to provide free menstrual products to all Dearborn high schools for the upcoming school year. The initiative is part of a DPH partnership with Los Angeles-based The Pad Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to "creating and cultivating local...

Arab, female-founded “relationship” app sees growing global success

February 22nd, 20220 DETROIT — A U.S.-based, Arab female-owned dating app has seen a massive increase in users around the world and growing popularity in international app markets. Baklava, an "Arab relationship app for dating, marriage and friendships", announced last week that it is now at 160,000 plus downloads and growing. The app is now seeing...

Women-owned “Arab relationship” app celebrates heritage, teases stereotypes

August 28th, 20210 Over the summer, many in Dearborn may have noticed a billboard for an Arab relationship app. Baklava entered the online dating market with the goals of providing a familiar and relatable platform for young Arabs who want to connect with each other and build relationships and friendships, locally and across the world. In the U.S., the...

U.S. Supreme Court to hear case involving FBI’s spying on California mosques

June 11th, 20210 WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to look at a decade-long class-action case involving the FBI’s use of an informant to spy on several LA and Orange County mosques, the Courthouse News reported Tuesday. For more than a year, the FBI planted an informant in the mosques and instructed him to coerce and gather...

Miss Lebanon joins incoming U.S. diplomat to commemorate Arab Heritage Month

May 7th, 20210 — The following article was contributed by the Lebanese American Foundation in Los Angeles, California. LOS ANGELES — To mark the culmination of Arab Heritage Month, The House of Lebanon, the cultural center for the Lebanese American Foundation, composed a star-studded message featuring top Arab and Lebanese leaders and...

Los Angeles seeks to join lawsuit over federal sanctuary policies

August 22nd, 20170 SAN FRANCISCO ― The city of Los Angeles on Tuesday sought to join a lawsuit against the Department of Justice over federal restrictions on some law enforcement grants to so-called sanctuary cities, according to a court filing. The state of California and city of San Francisco earlier this month filed legal challenges that accused the...