November 9th, 20240HAMTRAMCK – On Tuesday, Hamtramck voters approved a referendum to renew the property tax dedicated to funding public schools in the city for 10 years. This decision came as the number of Arab American members on the local school board decreased, with the current board president, Yemeni American Jihan Aiyash, losing her bid for one of...
November 11th, 20220Hamtramck native Abraham Aiyash will become the first Arab American to be a majority leader in a state legislature next term after he was selected by his colleagues to be Michigan’s new majority floor leader of the State House. Aiyash will be the highest-ranking Muslim American in Michigan legislative history.
"Incredibly honored...
November 3rd, 20220ECORSE — An Arab American man is suing U.S. Steel for wrongful discrimination termination following employment discrimination by his supervisor.
The lawsuit, filed by the Michigan chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI) in federal court on behalf of Yemeni American Jalal Muflihi, says Muflihi complained for...
September 9th, 20220DEARBORN — Qahwah House, the famous Yemeni coffee shop located in Dearborn, has plans to expand to other states and has a mission to bring people together through its authentic coffee.
Qahwah House owner Ibrahim Alhasbani shared his goals for the coffee shop’s future and why he was inspired to bring this coffee business to...
July 22nd, 20220HAMTRAMCK — Abraham Aiyash is running to retain his seat in the State House in the August 2 primary election, in a redrawn district that includes new neighborhoods in Detroit, as well as the area covering Hamtramck that he currently represents.
The energetic community advocate has long been closely associated with local progressive...
June 2nd, 20222CHICOPEE, MASS — A Muslim woman in Massachusetts has filed a legal complaint against a McDonald’s restaurant whose employees purposefully stuffed bacon into a fish sandwich she and her son bought.
"McDonald's made my children and me feel unwanted and worthless by intentionally stuffing a fish sandwich full of bacon for no other...
April 12th, 20220DEARBORN — Dearborn student Ronny Majeed Abdullah is one of 100 graduating high school students in the U.S. — and the only one in Michigan — to receive the prestigious Cooke College Scholarship.
Recipients will receive up to $55,000 annually to cover costs associated with their undergraduate education as they go on to attend...
November 3rd, 20211HAMTRAMCK — Amer Ghalib celebrated a decisive victory against a long-time incumbent mayor on Tuesday, in an election that marks the changing of political tides in the city's history.
Ghalib may also be the first fully Yemeni American to serve as mayor of an American city, though Montgomery Township, New Jersey's Sadaf Jaffer,...
October 23rd, 20210HAMTRAMCK — Hamtramck’s mayoral race has taken a historic turn during and after the primaries, with Yemeni American candidate Amer Ghalib emerging as front runner, competing against long-time incumbent Mayor Karen Majewski.
The Arab American News reached out to both, with questions geared towards their particular campaigns. The...
October 22nd, 20210— This article by Abdul El-Sayed originally appeared in the newsletter The Incision. It has been edited for style. Subscribe to The Incision here: incision.substack.com
About a month after my 2018 Michigan gubernatorial campaign ended, I sat among Yemeni American community leaders in the enclave of South Dearborn. With large,...
September 16th, 20210DEARBORN — The tragic kidnapping, torture and murder in Yemen of Abdulmalek Alsanabani, a Yemeni student who resided in California, sparked outrage and protests in the U.S. and Yemen this week.
Alsanabani was a 25-year-old living in Fresno, California and had decided to take an often dangerous journey across the south of Yemen to...
July 14th, 20210HAMTRAMCK — Hamtramck Public Schools (HPS) announced this week the purchase of additional property, the second such purchase this year.
The district, which services much of the area's diverse population, including Yemeni and Bengali families, has finalized the purchase of the property at 8633 Joseph Campau Avenue. This comes after...
June 23rd, 20210CALIFORNIA — The Bay Area’s growing Yemeni community has made strong headways recently, by organizing an effort to secure much needed representation for Yemenis, Arabs and Muslims in the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD). Local Yemeni groups, parents and allied organizations and officials worked towards bringing more...
April 3rd, 20210- From Nada Almawiri
My name is Nada and I am a Yemeni American student at the University of Detroit Mercy. My current instructor is Abbas Al Haj Ahmad, who is also a writer at The Arab American News. Mr. Abbas Al Haj Ahmad has been a great mentor, instructor and an active member of our community.
I am very saddened to see what...
April 3rd, 20211
It started at childhood. “Yemeni, Yemeni, shower is my enemy.” At 9-years-old, these unforgettable words, among others, were often muttered by my fellow Arab classmates. I painfully recall standing there, frozen stiff as tears of shame and confusion threatened to spill over. As a young Yemeniya, I could not comprehend why I was...
March 20th, 20210DETROIT - 2021 should be a transformative year for HUDA Clinic in Detroit.
Located near the Highland Park enclave in Detroit, the free clinic has been providing essential medical and psychological care services to the low income communities in Detroit and Hamtramck for almost two decades. The urgency of that care only intensified...
January 23rd, 20210NORTH CAROLINA — Yemeni American Rashad Hauter recently recently made history by being appointed district court judge in the Wake County Judicial District Court.
The online publication Yemenis of America announced that Hauter is the first Yemeni American to become a judge in the U.S.
Hauter was appointed by Governor Roy Cooper...
October 30th, 20201HAMTRAMCK — A petition for the recall of Hamtramck City Councilman Ian Perrotta now has more than 1,300 signatures, according to a press release put out by Councilman Mohammed Hassan this week.
Hassan, who is leading the effort to recall Perrotta for abusive behavior against city employees, had 60 days to gather about 1,300...
July 31st, 20200HAMTRAMCK — Residents of Hamtramck have a big decision to make about the future of public education for its families. Voters will decide on Aug. 4 whether securing a low-interest $35,265,000, 30-year bond for new construction and maintaining the needs of the Hamtramck Public School District (HPS) is worth the seven mill tax...
January 16th, 20200WASHINGTON, D.C. – After the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced it will extend but not redesignate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Yemen, U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Dearborn) called on DHS to provide clarity and certainty to Yemenis living in the U.S. and people attempting to flee violence and the worst humanitarian...
October 20th, 20191DETROIT - U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn refused to send to prison a group of Detroit-area men who transferred millions of dollars to Yemen without registering as a money transfer business.
Cohn refused such sentencing, even though legal guidelines called for a few or more of the men to see prison time.
The group of men reportedly...
August 9th, 20190HAMTRAMCK – In a dramatic turn, four Muslim candidates are now among six of the top vote-getters in the 2019 Hamtramck City Council elections.
Results came in from Wayne County late Tuesday night, with in-person counts reported earlier in the night followed by absentee totals.
There was a total of 2,136 votes cast, 988 of which...
August 31st, 20180LANSING – Michigan voters are gearing up to elect candidates for governor, attorney general and secretary of state, among others, on November 6.
Following the primary elections, which saw the defeat of progressive candidate Abdul El-Sayed to his rival and establishment Democrat, Gretchen Whitmer, elected officials and Arab Americans...
June 30th, 20181NEW YORK — Yemeni Americans are most affected by President Trump's Muslim travel ban among the Arab and Muslim Americans. Yemen is one of the countries listed on the third version of the travel ban, which was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday. The ban blocks citizens of Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria and Yemen, and...
June 29th, 20180HAMTRAMCK — Mu’ath Bin Jabal Mosque in Detroit is a focal point for the growing population of Yemeni immigrants who live along the border of Hamtramck and Detroit and is located on a social and economically successful avenue that caters to Yemeni Americans and other community members. On June 24, the mosque awarded 12 Yemeni American...
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...
November 10th, 20170HAMTRAMCK — Mayor Karen Majewski won reelection to a fourth term on Tuesday, Nov. 7. She received 1,960 votes, while Mohammed Hassan finished with 1,231.
The overall voter turnout in the city's Nov. 7 general elections was 22 percent.
In the City Council race, Fadel Al-Marsoumi became the second Arab American elected to that...
July 14th, 20170It is a known fact that Dearborn has the highest concentration of Americans of Arab descent, some thriving more than others, in part due to their long history in this nation. For many reasons, internal segregation, which tends to stem from religious separation, politics and tribalism, has truly become a community concern.
Last week,...
