July 19th, 20241By Dr. Muzammil Ahmed
The 2024 primary election for the U.S. Senate in Michigan is a critical contest, with two prominent candidates vying for the Democratic nomination: Hill Harper and Elissa Slotkin. The race is critical, but not because it is close; Slotkin is favored by the establishment to win. The race is critical because it is...
July 19th, 20240DEARBORN – Democratic Michigan State Representative Alabas Farhat, an Arab American, is seeking to retain his seat for State House District 3, which was redrawn last year to include most of Dearborn and limited neighborhoods in the Warrendale area of Detroit.
Currently serving his first term in Lansing, Farhat seeks to win a second...
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 5th, 20240Hill Harper, 32-year union member, Detroit small business owner, cancer survivor, actor, author and a single father, is running for U.S. Senate in the Michigan Democratic primary on Aug. 6.
“I am not a career politician, but I have a set of lived experiences I think for this moment are very valuable for that 100-person body...
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 28th, 20240DEARBORN HEIGHTS – As the construction of the new headquarters for the Islamic Institute of America on Beech Daly Road in Dearborn Heights is nearing completion, the center's imam, Sayed Hassan Qazwini, urged the Arab and Muslim communities in the Detroit area to contribute to building this state-of-art center. This center will be a...
June 22nd, 20240A report released by the Michigan Association of United Ways in partnership with United for ALICE, the Consumers Energy Foundation and local United Ways throughout the state shows 41 percent of Michigan residents are living in poverty or financially struggling.
This report assesses how the economic conditions influence people using...
June 21st, 20240A report published by the Associated Press highlighted the growing role of Lebanese American businessman Massad Boulos in swaying Arab voters in Michigan to vote for former President Trump in the upcoming presidential election. This effort is amid their strong dissatisfaction with President Biden's policies towards the brutal Israeli war...
June 14th, 20240Joe Biden will lose the state of Michigan in the November election. Whether that leads to him losing the presidency is an open question. Even though the alternative is worse, actually much worse, many voters like myself cannot stomach voting for a president who has approved of and supported the intentional killing of tens of thousands of...
May 31st, 20240Forty percent of Arab Americans in key U.S. swing states, including Michigan, say they are "not enthusiastic at all" about November’s election.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Biden’s support among Arab American voters in critical swing states has plummeted during the war in Gaza, a new poll found, in the latest sign that the United...
April 26th, 20240LANSING – Michigan will get more than $156 million in federal funding for a program to expand residential solar in low-income communities, part of a federal initiative to confront climate change while reducing energy bills for people in low income areas.
“Michigan is committed to leading the future of clean energy, lowering utility...
April 19th, 20240Michigan has become the first state to be approved to implement separate licensing standards for kin caregivers — extended family members like grandparents, aunts and uncles serving as foster care providers.
Advocates said goal of kinship care is to keep families together, increase equity in the child welfare system and allow...
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...
February 13th, 20242Michigan community leaders are encouraging voters to select "uncommitted" in the Michigan primary elections, hoping to send a message to President Biden before November that they're unhappy with U.S. support for Israel in the conflict with Gaza.
"The main push is Joe Biden's stance on the conflict taking place between Israel and...
January 27th, 20240Michigan’s monthly unemployment number remained steady from November to December of last year at 4.3 percent and the state’s 2023 average is below where it was in 2019 just before the COVID pandemic.
The Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget released the seasonally adjusted December jobless numbers released this...
January 12th, 20240Donald Trump would soundly defeat Joe Biden in Michigan — but the state’s Democratic governor would fare much better against Trump in a hypothetical matchup, a new poll showed.
The poll, conducted by the Michigan-based Glengariff Group from Jan. 2 to Jan. 6, has the former president beating Biden by 8 points — 47 to 39 percent —...
January 5th, 20240WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Wednesday, a Department of Education policy adviser appointed by the Biden administration quit to protest the administration’s continuous military support of Israel’s war on Gaza and its handling of the conflict’s repercussions at home and abroad.
Tariq Habash, a Biden administration appointee who had...
December 8th, 20230By Damita Menezes, (NewsNation)
Osama Siblani, the publisher of The Arab American News, expressed deep dissatisfaction with President Biden’s approach to the Israel-Palestinian conflict in an “On Balance” interview raising concerns of Biden’s reelection chances in key swing states.
Biden faces multiple challenges as he...
December 1st, 20230Nasser Beydoun, a Dearborn resident and a Democrat seeking the U.S. Senate seat of retiring Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), said he was offered campaign contributions of $20 million to quit the senate race and run against Democratic U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Dearborn) in the 2024 Democratic primary.
Beydoun, a well known businessman...
October 27th, 20231The positions of the Biden administration on the current Israeli war on the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip since October 7 were not only disappointing, but rather shocking and provocative to the extreme of oppression and resentment among Arab and Muslim Americans in Michigan and nationwide. They felt that President Biden and most...
July 8th, 20230On Monday, July 3, Bay County Mosquito Control issued an advisory stating that routine surveillance detected evidence of the Eastern Equine Encephalitis virus, or EEE, in a mosquito in Hampton Township.
“Surveillance undertaken by Mosquito Control is used as an early warning system,” said Rebecca Brandt, Bay County Mosquito Control...
July 3rd, 20230The state of Michigan has been awarded more than $1.5 billion in federal funding to establish high-speed Internet access in regions that have slow or no Internet access.
The billions of dollars being sent to Michigan to improve Internet access comes from a $42.5 billion federal program aimed at ensuring access for every home and...
May 26th, 20230BLOOMFIELD HILLS — A Michigan high school senior has been selected as a 2023 U.S. Presidential Scholar. Adnan Khan of Bloomfield Hills was selected out of more than 5,000 students across the nation for this prestigious title.
A total of 161 U.S. high school seniors were chosen to be U.S. Presidential Scholars and Khan is one of...
January 6th, 20230
U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow will not seek reelection in 2024, the longtime Michigan Democrat said Thursday, opening up a Senate seat in a key swing state.
"Inspired by a new generation of leaders, I have decided to pass the torch in the U.S. Senate," she said in a statement on Jan. 5. "I am announcing today that I will...
December 6th, 20220Governor Whitmer’s office said this week that a new initiative to tackle the number of illegal guns off the streets has seen hundreds of guns being confiscated before they are used in crimes.
The updated numbers say that the Operation Safe Neighborhoods program has led to operation law enforcement officials conducting 1,767 check-ins...
December 6th, 20220Deaths linked to COVID-19 have now surpassed 40,000 in Michigan since the pandemic began in 2020, the state health department reported.
More than 36,400 deaths have been confirmed, while 3,676 were probably caused by COVID-19, the state said Tuesday on its coronavirus website.
There were 113 in the past week.
“Throughout the...
November 25th, 20223A Northville couple who died in a late-night rollover crash Nov. 12 were remembered and honored in an online memorial service last Monday night.
Manal Kadry and her husband, Dr. Omar Salamen, died after their car left the road as the driver attempted to navigate a turn near their neighborhood, Northville police said. Police said the...
November 19th, 20220By Peter White
Despite new laws to keep people from voting and gerrymandering election districts to take away the power of minority communities, the Republican “red wave” that pollsters predicted ahead of last week’s midterms didn’t happen.
Ethnic Media Services debriefed six experts on their reactions to the election...