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Beirut and Doha selected as a ‘New7Wonders’ city
BEIRUT — Beirut was among seven cities selected as a "New7Wonders" city, beating out more than 1,000 competitors, the organization’s chief announced Sunday. "I would like to thank everyone who has helped promote the New7Wonders Cities campaign since its inception in 2011," Bernard Weber, founder and president of New7Wonders...Is torture an American value?
The most recent chapter in America's sordid history with torture, the release of the Senate Intelligence Committee's report on CIA torture during the Bush Administration, reinforces what human rights organizations and frankly many people around the world already know about the U.S. government. Ours is a government that views...
Path forward needed for stronger Arab-Black solidarity
December 12th, 20140 As protests erupt across the U.S. in reaction to the non-indictments of two White male police officers who killed two unarmed Black men, a discussion on the state of race relations in this country has also taken hold – particularly between the Arab American and African American communities. Parts of this conversation have been...U.N. says rich nations pledge to take 100,000 Syrian refugees
GENEVA — The U.N. refugee agency said on Tuesday that Western governments had heeded a call to take in more Syrian refugees from neighboring countries and estimated that, in all, more than 100,000 places would be offered in the coming months. UNHCR, which wants to resettle 130,000 Syrians outside the region by the end of 2016, said...UAE court convicts 11 on terror charges
ABU DHABI — A United Arab Emirates court convicted 11 men including UAE, Syrian and Comoros nationals of helping to form an al-Qaeda affiliate and sending fighters to join Syrian rebel groups, newspapers reported on Wednesday. Four Emiratis among the 11 were sentenced to life imprisonment in absentia by the state security division of...Saudi Arabia links “Islamic State” to shooting of Danish man
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia has arrested three suspects in connection with the shooting of a Danish man in Riyadh last month, and investigations show it was carried out on behalf of "Islamic State", an interior ministry spokesman said on Thursday. The spokesman, Major General Mansour Turki, said security forces recovered the handgun and a...Egyptian pro-democracy activist sentenced to three years
CAIRO — Egyptian pro-democracy activist Ahmed Douma was sentenced to three years in jail on Tuesday after he accused the judge of bias and denounced his trial on charges of violence against the state as political. Douma was a leading youth figure in the 2011 uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak at the height of the "Arab Spring." He is...
Rasmea Odeh released on bond
December 12th, 20140 DETROIT — Rasmea Odeh was released from jail on Thursday afternoon, after Judge Gershwin Drain ruled to reinstate her bond. The Palestinian American activist was convicted of immigration fraud on Nov. 10 for not disclosing a conviction in a military court in Israel on her U.S. citizenship application. Federal marshals arrested...
Local minors were heavily involved in Warrendale area drug ring, three adults convicted
December 10th, 20140 DETROIT— Three members of a Warrendale area drug ring were convicted in federal court this week after a six week trial before U.S. District Judge Stephen Murphy that led to a nine-day deliberation from a grand jury. Two of the men, who were arrested last year, are brothers. Mohamed "Mojo" Faraj, 31, and Foaud "Fred" Faraj, 44,...
Arab American community divided over Ferguson events
December 5th, 20140 DEARBORN — Daren Wilson's shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO, followed by a grand jury's decision not to indict the police officer, sparked angry protests and countless conversations about race, police brutality and law enforcement across the country. But while conservatives generally applauded the grand jury's decisions and...
Prescription drug abuse prevalent among community adolescents
December 5th, 20140 DEARBORN — 52 million people in the United States over the age of 12 have used prescription drugs non-medically in their lifetime. The United States has 5 percent of the world’s population and consumes 75 percent of the world’s prescription drugs.Our communities aren’t immune from the abuse of prescription drugs. According to...Dearborn robber still at large
DEARBORN — On Wednesday at about 5 p.m. the 5th Third Bank in Dearborn, on Telegraph south of Ford Road, was robbed by a lone male who produced a hold-up note and demanded money. The suspect is described as being approximately 40-years-old, thin, between 5'9" and 6'0" tall and missing several teeth. A teller turned over an...
Rasmea Odeh’s defense requests her release on bond
December 5th, 20140 DETROIT — The judge in Rasmea Odeh's case is expected to soon make a decision on a defense motion requesting the reinstatement of her bond.Last month, Odeh, 67, a Palestinian American activist living in Chicago, was found guilty of lying on her U.S. naturalization application about having been arrested and convicted in Israel 45...
Mubarak’s acquittal a continuation of the counter-revolution
December 5th, 20140 On Jan. 25, 2011, Egypt revolted against tyranny. Egyptian security forces gunned down more than 800 peaceful protesters during the 17-day uprising that led to the fall of Hosni Mubarak, the dictator who has been ruling the country for 30 years.Last week, Mubarak and seven of his security commanders, including ex-interior minister...
City officials deny hookah exemption to local business
December 5th, 20140 DEARBORN — City officials have denied the owners of Signature Cafe, a hookah bar and restaurant located on Warren Ave. and Chase Rd, an exemption to a six month hookah moratorium, forcing the business to a halt in trying to secure a hookah license from the state. The owners of Signature Cafe claim they had been trying to obtain......
Detroit Police kill man inside Macy’s Dry Cleaners, suspect allegedly targeted owner
DEARBORN — On Friday, November 28, Detroit Police shot and killed a suspect at Macy's Dry Cleaners. The suspect was wanted for a murder in Detroit earlier that day.The suspect, named Sam, is described as a Hispanic male in his late 50s by eyewitnesses who were at the scene. He had worked for the dry cleaner at one point more...
Henry Ford College Student selected for exclusive nationwide NASA program
December 5th, 20140 DEARBORN — Ali Tarraf, a Dearborn resident studying at Henry Ford College (HFC), was the only college student in Michigan selected to travel to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, this past fall to participate in the National Community College Aerospace Scholars (NCAS) project.Tarraf, an alumnus of Fordson High School, is one...
Public invited to Dec. 15 open house at Dearborn’s new train station; Amtrak will move operations as of Dec. 10
December 5th, 20140 DEARBORN — The public is invited to a free open house at Dearborn’s new train station, the John D. Dingell Transit Center, from 4-6 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 15.The new transit center is at 21201 Michigan Ave., near Brady Street, at the entrance to the west downtown business district.At the Dec. 15 open house, residents can tour the...
Comedian FouseyTUBE to perform in Dearborn Jan. 17
December 5th, 20140 DEARBORN — Yousef Saleh Erakat, also known by the stage name FouseyTUBE, will appear live in Dearborn Saturday, January 17 at 8 p.m. at the Ford Community and Performing Arts Center.Erakat is an American entertainer and motivational speaker who produces parodies, vlogs, comedy sketches, and pranks for his YouTube channel. He is a......
Missouri National Guard scales back, Ferguson protests probed
December 5th, 20140 Members of the National Guard stand guard outside the Ferguson Police Department in Missouri November 28.ST. LOUIS — The Missouri National Guard is starting to scale back its presence in the St. Louis area as angry protests over the lack of an indictment in the police shooting of an unarmed Black teenager ease, Missouri Governor Jay...
NY policeman not indicted in chokehold death
December 5th, 20140 NEW YORK — A New York City grand jury decision not to charge a White police officer who killed an unarmed Black man with a chokehold sparked outrage and protests on Wednesday; and the U.S. Justice Department said it would investigate the incident.Eric Garner, a 43-year-old father of six, was illegally selling cigarettes on July 17......
The Mockingjay of Palestine: “If we burn, you burn with us”
Raed Mu’anis was my best friend. The small scar on top of his left eyebrow was my doing at the age of five. I urged him to quit hanging on a rope where my mother was drying our laundry. He wouldn’t listen, so I threw a rock at him.I didn’t mean for the rock hit him, but it did. My father dragged to me to his house kicking and...Al-Azhar urges Christians to stand firm in face of extremists
Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb (R), Coptic Pope Tawadros (C) at conference on fighting extremism on Dec. 3.CAIRO — Al-Azhar, Sunni Islam's most prestigious center of learning, on Thursday urged Christians in the Arab world to stand firm in the face of jihadist violence and not flee into exile.The call, made at a Cairo conference organized by......