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Crestwood High School students offered $13.6 million in scholarships COMMUNITY

Crestwood High School students offered $13.6 million in scholarships

June 30th, 20170 DEARBORN HEIGHTS — In mid June, Crestwood High School sent 312 graduates on a life-altering path that will ultimately result in an even more prosperous new chapter as 178 of them have been offered a combined $13.6 million in scholarships and awards. All the graduates applied to college. Principal John Tafelski expressed his...
Dearborn high school graduates awarded millions of dollars in scholarships COMMUNITY

Dearborn high school graduates awarded millions of dollars in scholarships

June 23rd, 20170 DEARBORN — Last week, 1,369 students of diverse ethnicities and backgrounds graduated from the Dearborn Public School District on one path— success. Superintendent Glenn Maleyko said he's proud of the overall 93 percent graduation rate. "All of our high schools have been recognized for preparation of students for college and...
Interfaith leaders, officials and community display unity at mayor's iftar COMMUNITY

Interfaith leaders, officials and community display unity at mayor’s iftar

June 13th, 20170 DEARBORN — Elected officials, candidates, community members and organization and religious leaders of different faiths broke bread together at an iftar dinner hosted by Mayor Jack O'Reilly at Byblos Banquet Hall on Wednesday, June 7. The dinner's standing-room-only attendance was a testament to solidarity amid the trying times...
Two Lebanese Americans charged with aiding Hezbollah COMMUNITY

Two Lebanese Americans charged with aiding Hezbollah

June 9th, 20170 DEARBORN — A Dearborn man whose home was raided by the FBI on June 1 was arrested in Livonia later that night on suspicion of links to Hezbollah, a U.S. designated terrorist organization, the Justice Department announced on Thursday, June 8. Both Samer El Debek, a Lebanese American truck driver who moved to Michigan from New York a...
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US sees sharp drop-off in refugee arrivals; Michigan mirrors national trend

LANSING — The number of refugees re-settled in Michigan has dropped sharply over the past six months, mirroring a national trend, according to new analysis of U.S. State Department data from the Pew Research Center. Last October Michigan re-settled 563 refugees. As of April, that number has fallen to 168. Nationally, 9,945 refugees...
Portland men who defended Muslim teen hailed as heroes COMMUNITY

Portland men who defended Muslim teen hailed as heroes

June 2nd, 20170 PORTLAND/DEARBORN — On May 26, a man aboard a commuter train in Portland, Oregon slashed the throats of three passengers for heroically standing up for and protecting two teenage girls from his White supremacist, anti-Muslim tirade. Ricky John Best, 53, reportedly died at the scene, while Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche, 23, died...
FBI raids Dearborn home, arrests man citing 'national security issue' COMMUNITY

FBI raids Dearborn home, arrests man citing ‘national security issue’

June 2nd, 20171 DEARBORN ― On June 1 at around 5 in the evening, the silence of a Dearborn street was broken when a large FBI task force raided a home, just as some residents were preparing to break their fasts. The FBI said it was conducting an operation related to a "national security issue" at the home on Jonathon Street near Warren Avenue, but...
Dearborn Heights Police seeking to recruit Arab Americans COMMUNITY

Dearborn Heights Police seeking to recruit Arab Americans

May 19th, 20170 DEARBORN HEIGHTS — As the Arab American community continues to grow in Dearborn Heights, the city hopes to recruit more representatives to its police department. Recently, a fourth Arab American was added to the police force, which comprises 82 police officers in total. Chief Lee Gavin expressed concerns that none...
Air Force Captain Rawan Latif follows a family tradition of service COMMUNITY

Air Force Captain Rawan Latif follows a family tradition of service

May 19th, 20170 DETROIT — On May 10, Detroit native Rawan Latif, 24, became a captain in the United States Air Force. That is only one of many ways in which Latif has served both her local community and the United States at large. Latif, who is stationed at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, comes from a family involved in service, with an uncle who...
Spread of fighting, cholera pushes Yemen to collapse COMMUNITY

Spread of fighting, cholera pushes Yemen to collapse

May 19th, 20170 SANAA, Yemen — Spilling into the hallways of crowded Yemeni hospitals, children writhe in pain from cholera. Displaced villagers roam baking hot plains and barren mountains to evade warring militias. The escalating outbreak of disease and displacement of tens of thousands by recent fighting has inflamed one of the world's worst...
New supermarket opens to meet demand of diverse communities COMMUNITY

New supermarket opens to meet demand of diverse communities

May 19th, 20170 DEARBORN HEIGHTS — In the increasingly diverse Southeast Michigan region, markets catering to the cuisine of one's homeland can be far and few. Dearborn, which harbors the highest concentration of Arab Americans in the country, has overcome that problem, as streets like Warren Avenue are lined with Mediterranean grocers. A...
Wayne County Sheriff: We won't turn over immigrants to ICE COMMUNITY

Wayne County Sheriff: We won’t turn over immigrants to ICE

May 18th, 20170 DETROIT ― Wayne County Sheriff Benny Napoleon has ordered his staff to deny requests by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to turn over immigrant inmates without a warrant signed by a federal judge or magistrate. In an April 28 memo from Napoleon obtained by The AANews the sheriff wrote: “Recent court decisions have...
LGBTQ Arabs use spaces to transgress misconceptions COMMUNITY

LGBTQ Arabs use spaces to transgress misconceptions

May 12th, 20170 DEARBORN — A lack of language for gay identity in religious doctrine reflected the stigmatization and eventual pathologization of it in Western discourse, where homosexuality was recognized as a mental illness from the 19th century until its removal from the DSM in 1973. Ironically, Arabic and Islamic-era words articulating...
Male circumcision: Outdated tradition or necessary medical procedure? COMMUNITY

Male circumcision: Outdated tradition or necessary medical procedure?

May 12th, 201715 There was a festive spirit in a Syrian neighborhood, decades before children were acquainted with desolation — a young boy was growing fretful as the moment for a special occasion approached. An entire neighborhood, where mere residence equaled family, knew why Mohamad, 12, along with a few of his brothers and cousins, were going to...
West Dearborn's Post Bar to face hearing regarding liquor license revocation COMMUNITY

West Dearborn’s Post Bar to face hearing regarding liquor license revocation

May 5th, 20170 DEARBORN — A bar in west Dearborn criticized by a city official last week for attracting unruly crowds will face a hearing that could result in the revocation of the business' liquor license. City Council President Pro Tem Tom Tafelski has called Post Bar, located on Michigan Ave., a "public nuisance." The city played a key role in...
Arab Americans have played key roles in union activism COMMUNITY

Arab Americans have played key roles in union activism

May 5th, 20170 DETROIT — Arab Americans are typically not regarded as a subset of immigrants with a history tied to labor movements. However, Arab American involvement in labor movements is interwoven within the greater framework of workers' protests in the United States. This renders Arab American history in the U.S., via its political...
Middle Eastern Census category closer to reality COMMUNITY

Middle Eastern Census category closer to reality

May 5th, 20171 DEARBORN — Decades of efforts by Arab American organizations are paying off, as the U.S. Census Bureau officially approved a category that counts residents of Middle Eastern and North African origins (MENA) on the 2020 census. After the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) welcomed public comments last October regarding the MENA...
Snyder appoints Mariam Bazzi as Wayne County Circuit Court judge COMMUNITY

Snyder appoints Mariam Bazzi as Wayne County Circuit Court judge

May 5th, 20170 LANSING — Gov. Snyder has appointed Mariam Bazzi to the Third Circuit Court in Wayne County. "Mariam Bazzi's commitment to her community and the law makes her a natural pick for the Wayne County Circuit Court," Snyder said in a statement. "Mariam brings with her to the bench years of experience in complex areas of the law and a...
Gov. Snyder appoints Mariam Bazzi as Wayne County Circuit Court judge COMMUNITY

Gov. Snyder appoints Mariam Bazzi as Wayne County Circuit Court judge

May 2nd, 20172 LANSING – Governor Rick Snyder today announced the appointment of Mariam Bazzi to the 3rd Circuit Court in Wayne County. “Mariam Bazzi’s commitment to her community and the law makes her a natural pick for the Wayne County Circuit Court,” Snyder said. “Mariam brings with her to the bench years of experience in complex areas...
Great Revelations Academy exceeds state standards COMMUNITY

Great Revelations Academy exceeds state standards

April 21st, 20173 DEARBORN — It's open enrollment season at Great Revelations Academy, a non-profit Islamic academic institution that offers Arabic and Islamic classes on top of the core subjects to students of different grade levels. The two-story, 75,000 square foot school, which is located at 6400 Miller Road, next to the Bint Jebail Cultural...
City to shut down third west Dearborn bar in recent months COMMUNITY

City to shut down third west Dearborn bar in recent months

April 21st, 20170 DEARBORN — Another west Dearborn bar is facing efforts to shut it down following scrutiny from the City Council, which stemmed from a rash of violent episodes outside the business. City Council President Pro Tem Thomas Tafelski charged last Sunday that the Post Bar is a "public nuisance", heralding that it could become the fourth...
Yemeni Americans stage New York protest, urge U.S. to rethink Saudi alliance COMMUNITY

Yemeni Americans stage New York protest, urge U.S. to rethink Saudi alliance

April 2nd, 20170 NEW YORK CITY — On a cold, snowy Sunday morning, more than 100 Arab Americans gathered outside the United Nations headquarters to protest the United States' support for Saudi Arabia, which they say is the culprit responsible for extreme devastation and famine in Yemen. Dozens of Yemeni, Lebanese and Iraqi American demonstrators met...
DHS secretary should apologize for shutting out community leaders In Our Opinion

DHS secretary should apologize for shutting out community leaders

March 31st, 20170 In a meeting Wednesday at the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials arranged to meet with Arab and Muslim community activists and leaders under the pretext that those communities would be represented and heard. The subtext that unfolded throughout the course of the contentious...
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