June 30th, 20180DEARBORN – The Arab American National Museum will hold a book signing and story time event to celebrate the release of Michigan author Shayma Mustafa’s book, “Excuse me Ma'am, Excuse Me Sir: I'm Amina, an All-American Girl”, on July 1.
Mustafa is a teacher, mother of five children and a self-declared bibliophile. She said the...
June 19th, 20180As the Arab and Muslim worlds were ending a month of blessed fasting, observing the most holy month in Islam and getting ready to celebrate Eid al-Fitr, there isn’t much to celebrate there— a region engulfed in bloodshed and complicated conflicts among brothers and neighbors.
In Gaza, a real massacre engulfing the besieged Strip...
June 11th, 20180LANSING — Gov. Snyder has proclaimed June as Immigrant Heritage Month. Michigan celebrates its past, present and future by welcoming those from across the globe who contribute to the state's cultural diversity and economic growth.
"Michigan is a national leader in welcoming New Americans and that is something to be proud of," Snyder...
June 8th, 20181WASHINGTON, D.C. — After declining to mark Ramadan last year with a traditional iftar dinner, which breaks the daily fast during the Islamic holy month, the White House held one Wednesday night with a few dozen guests, many of them ambassadors from Muslim nations.
Meanwhile, some Islamic groups that were not invited, led by the...
June 4th, 20180WASHINGTON - The National Security Council announced last week that Fred Fleitz, a former CIA analyst and a senior vice president at the Center for Security Policy, is the Council's new Chief of Staff and Executive Secretary and also Deputy Assistant to President Donald Trump.
The Center for Security Policy, which the Southern...
June 3rd, 20180David Gagner was having seizures.
But he did not have nor can afford health insurance, so he sought care at a Baptist Health emergency room. There he was told he had another option in the future, the volunteer-run Muslim American Social Services, or MASS, clinic that provides free health care to uninsured, low-income adults of all...
June 2nd, 20180The Pew Research Center has found that 80 percent of U.S. Muslims say they observe Ramadan by fasting during daylight hours. More of the U.S.’s 2.15 million Muslim adults say they do this than say that they pray five times a day (42 percent) or attend mosque weekly (43 percent). More Muslim women say they observe Ramadan in this way...
June 1st, 20180DEARBORN — Farah, a 9-year-old girl flaunting a colorful dress, proudly hands a drawing she made to a woman who’d just gifted her a toy doll.
Farah, whose name translates to “joy” in Arabic, said she loves drawing and would someday day like to teach art. Mohammed, her 6-year-old brother, sports a black bandana. He’s...
May 25th, 20180Party City said it's become the first national retailer to offer a dedicated line of decorations for Ramadan, after numerous requests from customers.
Ramadan began on May 16 and ends at on June 14, kicking off the start of the day-long Eid al-Fitr celebration.
The chain, which has more than 900 stores in the United States and...
May 25th, 20180"When our trust and connections to one another break down, we are all the poorer for it. One of the most tested and reliable ways in which we can ignite cross-community understanding and dissipate fear is through storytelling." - Zeyba Rahman, senior program officer for Building Bridges
DEARBORN – Muslims have a storied...
May 25th, 20180WARREN — A Warren city official has turned in her resignation papers after making anti-Muslim posts on social media.
Diane Toni Deliso Kozlowski, a member of the Elected Officials Compensation Commission, said she wasn’t talking about Muslims, but terrorists, and sparked a nerve with a local Muslim civil liberties...
May 18th, 20180The Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art selected 15 grantees from a pool of 200 applicants, double from the previous year, when 98 organizations applied. Among the recipients is the University of Michigan-Dearborn's Center for Arab American Studies, which was awarded $216,677.
NEW YORK — Fifteen U.S. organizations will receive a...
May 18th, 20180By Keith A. Owens
Special to the Arab American News
DEARBORN - Since the latter part of 2010, Country Restaurant, located at 5131 Schaefer Road in Dearborn, has contracted with Wayne County Senior Services to provide halal meals for Wayne County seniors who qualify for the Meals On Wheels program. More than 60 seniors...
May 18th, 20180DEARBORN — For the second week in a row, local Muslims protested the Islamic Center of America’s (ICA) hosting of Israeli officers last month, along with a group of military students from around the world.
Requested by the State Department and organized by the mosque’s interfaith organization, the officers participated for the...
May 18th, 20180DEARBORN — Celebrating Ramadan in the U.S. doesn’t come as naturally as it does in Muslim-majority countries. From fasting during long summer days to lackluster holiday cheer and enduring anti-Muslim sentiments, Muslim Americans have to try just a little harder throughout Islam’s holiest month.
Samar Baydoun Bazzi, a 29-year-old...
May 11th, 20180DETROIT — On Thursday, May 10, the Wayne County Commission approved a resolution introduced by Commission Chairman Gary Woronchak (D-Dearborn) recognizing the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, which begins May 16.
Woronchak continued a tradition he established several years ago of commemorating the start of Ramadan each year with a...
May 11th, 20180"Many of the ICA's congregants are Arab Americans who have fled war and poverty caused by Israeli aggression in their homeland." - Suhail Bitar, whose relatives were slain during the 1996 Qana massacre
DEARBORN – It was clear it wasn’t going to be a regular Sunday prayer service at the Islamic Center of America (ICA), the...
May 4th, 20180By Tareq Abdel Wahed
The Arab American News
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The Arab American News
DEARBORN — On May 3, Arab American supporters of U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Dearborn) held a fundraiser to re-elect the congresswoman.
Speakers were Osama Siblani, publisher of The Arab American News; Sam Beydoun, a real estate...
April 27th, 20180DETROIT – It’s no secret that the 2016 presidential election cultivated an electrified wave of progressive activism and swaths of candidates from minority communities running for office.
In Michigan, where President Trump was victorious, increasingly polarized Democrats and Republicans are gearing up for contentious races to...
April 25th, 20180WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Supreme Court’s conservative majority appeared poised to hand President Trump a huge legal victory, signaling on Wednesday it was likely to uphold his contentious travel ban targeting several Muslim-majority countries.
Conservative justices including Chief Justice John Roberts and Anthony Kennedy, a frequent...
April 13th, 20180NEW YORK CITY — Last Thursday, a group of Muslim owned-businesses, mosques, individuals, and student groups reached a settlement with the New York Police Department (NYPD) in a federal lawsuit challenging the discriminatory surveillance of American Muslims in New Jersey.
Filed in 2012 in federal court in New Jersey, in Hassan v....
April 6th, 20180There are many times we need to ask ourselves, what are our true priorities?
A couple of weeks ago, thanks to social media, and fake news, we were all made aware of a suspicious flyer that supposedly originated somewhere in the United Kingdom, but no one was able to determine who was behind it.
The “Punish a Muslim Day”...
March 16th, 20180By Maliha Ahmed
DEARBORN — There is a need for culturally-competent and accurate information on sexual health and healthy relationships in the Arab and Muslim communities. The preventative nature of this education can have long-lasting impact on individuals, their health-seeking practices and overall population health. However, if...
February 16th, 20181By Farah Harb
WASHINGTON D.C. — The Pew Research Center issued a report in January stating there are as many Muslims leaving Islam as there are Muslims converting to it, leading two of Dearborn's Muslim leaders to question the report's validity.
The Pew Research Center stated in its report that 23 percent of adults who were...
January 19th, 20180By Farah Harb
WASHINGTON D.C. — The Pew Research Center recently released a report stating that Muslim Americans in the United States constitute 1 percent of the total U.S. population, but a Muslim advocacy group questions the results.
In the report, The Pew Research Center claims that as of 2017, there are 3.45 million Muslims...
December 22nd, 20170By Ramzy Baroud
Within hours after Akayed Ullah, a Bangladeshi immigrant, allegedly detonated a pipe bomb in New York City on December 11, severely injuring himself and wounding four others, a most comprehensive official and media narrative emerged.
The formulation of the narrative concerning Ullah's motives, radicalization and...
December 15th, 20170DETROIT — Hates crimes reported to police in Michigan went up 29 percent last year, according to data released on November 13 by the FBI. The increase saw a spike from 309 reported crimes to 399.
"Hate crimes are happening more often than actually reported," said Rashida Tlaib, a former state representative now working with the...
December 15th, 20178FARMINGTON HILLS — Even in the multicultural Queens, New York City, Noura Embabi greatly felt the ripple effects of anti-Muslim bigotry immediately after Sept. 11, as a 16-year-old high school student.
She grew up in an Egyptian Muslim American family, but incidents like a car attempting to run over her family while walking the...
