January 5th, 20240DEARBORN HEIGHTS – The local nonprofit organization Youdemonia is making a mark in Southeast Michigan with a bit of holiday cheer. The group, founded in 2020, aims to combat social disparities by creating community events and increasing opportunity awareness for youth.
This past month, Youdemonia held Michigan’s first-ever...
August 20th, 20221DEARBORN — Reckless driving has no doubt become the city’s personal epidemic and the revving engines and mufflers screaming like banshees throughout neighborhoods on a daily basis are now our perennial background noise. Sadly, the number of fatal accidents, too, do not seem to be going away any time soon and the keen interest...
January 12th, 20190Saturday volunteers from the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association picked up trash outside Independence Hall, the birthplace of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and other national parks closed by the partial government shutdown.
They cleaned up litter, swept the grounds and emptied garbage cans at the Everglades...
July 21st, 20180By Tamara Ajjour
The Arab American News intern
Dearborn — Dearborn has long been known as the hub for all things Middle Eastern. From Lebanese, Iraqi and Yemeni restaurants and grocery stores to cafes, bakeries, mosques and a museum highlighting Arab culture and way of life, many Arab Americans find everything they're looking for...
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 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...
June 24th, 20180TROY — The Arab American Chaldean Council (ACC) awarded a total of $30,000 in scholarships to 30 students of leadership and good academic standing during the 16th annual Golf Outing and Scholarship Awards Dinner on June 20.
ACC is a premier non-profit human service organization providing services in Southeast Michigan and it...
March 30th, 20180NEW YORK — The youth-led gun control movement that flexed its public muscle with huge weekend rallies has already nudged Congress to enact minor firearms changes, but must remain active if it hopes to win more meaningful regulations, lawmakers said on Sunday.
The movement that erupted after the Feb. 14 mass shooting at Marjory...
March 9th, 20180As global voices continue to demand the freedom of a 17-year-old teenage Palestinian girl, Ahed Tamimi, Israeli authorities have arrested nine additional members of her family.
Those who were detained on February 26 include Ahed's 15-year-old cousin, Mohammed Tamimi.
Israeli troops had shot Mohammed in the head last December,...
November 3rd, 20170DEARBORN HEIGHTS— Back in May, The AANews spoke to Dearborn Heights Police Chief Lee Gavin about the lack of Arab American interest in the police force.
At the time, Gavin said that they barely apply.
"We've had meetings ," he said. "Right now, in all the law enforcement agencies in the area, there are a total lack of...
September 7th, 20170HOUSTON, DEARBORN — Striding strenuously down a freeway, mostly mothers and their children were knee deep in water, making the journey away from their drowned homes.
They carried on their shoulders only what they could save. The water rose so fast that few families in Southeast Texas were left unthreatened by Hurricane Harvey's...
September 3rd, 20171BERKELEY, CA — The Islamic Scholarship Fund (ISF) was founded in 2009 in response to the low number of Muslims in media and policy fields. ISF provides funding and mentorship to its awardees.
Before ISF was launched, Dr. Hamid Rezapour, the founder and president, was frustrated by the negative depictions of Islam and Muslims in the...
DUBAI — A majority of young Arabs see President Trump's election as the factor most influencing their region in the next five years, a survey published on Wednesday showed, and they expressed concern that the U.S. president was anti-Muslim.
Trump signed an executive order in March banning citizens from six Muslim-majority nations...
