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Governor requests federal disaster declaration for Aug. 11 floods
LANSING – Governor Snyder requested that President Obama declare a major disaster for the state of Michigan as a result of the flash flooding that occurred in Macomb, Oakland and Wayne counties on Aug. 11. The request comes at the conclusion of an in-depth, two-week assessment of damage to the area.Snyder requested...Iraqi army launches offensive on militants in three cities
BAGHDAD — Iraqi forces launched an intense military operation against "Islamic State" insurgents in three cities in central Iraq on Wednesday, fighting to regain control of lost ground, security sources said.The offensives in Ramadi, Falluja and Haditha in the western province of Anbar started before dawn, security sources in the three...U.S. Army soldier accused of smuggling immigrants
TEXAS — A U.S. Army soldier has been accused of smuggling two undocumented immigrants across the Texas-Mexico border while in uniform, according to a federal criminal complaint.Eric Alexander Rodriguez, 20, a private in the Army, was charged with felony "bringing in and harboring certain aliens" on Friday in United States District...Arabic poet translator Khaled Mattawa receives 2014 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, awarded $625,000 stipend
ANN ARBOR—University of Michigan Ann Arbor professor Khaled Mattawa is a recipient of the 2014 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. Mattawa, 50, was born in Libya, and moved to the United States in 1979. The award is widely referred to as the “Genius Grant.” Only 21 fellows were selected. Some of the...Kelsey Museum of Archaeology to feature Islamic art show
ANN ARBOR — A medieval Egyptian water filter decorated with a prancing rabbit is just one of many intriguing objects in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology’s upcoming special exhibition, “Pearls of Wisdom: The Arts of Islam at the University of Michigan”, opening October 15. Other objects range from medieval cut-glass...
$12.8 million education grant allows ACCESS to help under-served students
September 12th, 20140 Anisa Sahoubah, director of the ACCESS Youth and Education a Department stands with Murad Kofaan, a former student of the CCLC program who now mentors others.DEARBORN — ACCESS, formally known as the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services, received a $2.5 million grant from the Michigan Department of Education,...
Detroit gas station owners receiving repeated tickets for same offense
September 12th, 20140 More than 65 concerned Detroit gas station owners attended the meeting.DEARBORN — Detroit gas station owner Phid Onwuzurike is still working on clearing the 14 tickets he received from Detroit police officers last August concerning licensing issues. Onwuzurike said officers came into his station one day and issued six tickets...
New faces vie for school board seats in crowded election
September 12th, 20140 DEARBORN — Three seats on Dearborn's seven-trustee Board of Education will be contested in the Nov. 4 election. With no incumbents on the ballot, 11 new faces are vying for a place on the board.The candidates include college teachers, activists, parents and one former trustee. The race in Dearborn is overcrowded, compared to nearby...Dearborn man arrested for larceny
Majid Amin Abdofara.Dearborn police responded after several alerted neighbors reported seeing Abdofara steal two center caps from a Cadillac Escalade parked on Jonathan. Abdofara was taken into custody after hiding the center caps in some nearby bushes. At the time he was arrested, Abdofara was also wanted on a felony...
Activists call for political solidarity between Arab and African Americans
September 12th, 20140 Organizers William Copeland and Dawud Walid at a Gaza solidarity protest in Detroit, July 13.DETROIT — "Our struggle is theirs and their struggle is ours," said Hatem Abudayyeh, the executive director of the Chicago-based Arab American Action Network (AAAN), to emphasize the need for solidarity between Arab and African Americans.He...
Hookah lounges in Dearborn: Which are legal and which are not
September 12th, 20140 Mangos, on Warren Ave., is a state classified legal hookah bar. DEARBORN – The Arab American News has obtained a list of hookah businesses in Dearborn and Dearborn Heights which have received an exemption from the state to allow patrons to consume food in their facilities, under strict guidelines. Those businesses include Cigaro...
Incoming Asian companies to boost Detroit’s Economy – Is Detroit Ready?
September 12th, 20140 Asian Companies of Metro Detroit.The momentum around Detroit’s slow-but-steady comeback has attracted throngs of new residents to the city’s downtown core and reinvestment from several firms. But while big real estate deals and large-scale moves grab headlines, smaller business owners are still taking a wait-and-see approach,...
YABA celebrates 45th anniversary, awards 13 scholarships
September 12th, 20140 DEARBORN — On Saturday, Sept. 6, The Yemen American Benevolent Association (YABA) celebrated the 45th anniversary at a dinner at the Bin Jbail Cultural Center. Community leaders, politicians, activists and elected officials attended the event. YABA distributed scholarships to 13 students at the end of the evening.Siham Awada...Ted Cruz gets booed off stage at Middle East Christian event
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was booed off the stage at an event hosted by a Christian organization in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday night.The conservative firebrand delivered the keynote address at an event hosted by In Defense of Christians (IDC), an organization that raises awareness of persecuted Christian and minority communities in...New York man pleads guilty to trying to join al Qaeda
NEW YORK — A New York man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to attempting to join the militant group al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, considered to be one of the most active wings of the network, prosecutors said.Marcos Alonso Zea, 26, was arrested last October at his Long Island home in a joint investigation by local and federal......
U.S. to alert retailers to bomb materials to counter home-grown threat
WASHINGTON — The government plans to give U.S. retailers a list of materials that can be used in explosives and ask them to look out for suspicious behavior as a way to combat domestic terrorism, the homeland security secretary said on Wednesday.On the eve of the 13th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, Jeh Johnson said the...
Obama’s anti- “Islamic State” strategy met with skepticism
September 12th, 20140 WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s new strategy to "degrade, and ultimately destroy" the Islamic State is being met with widespread skepticism among both hawks and doves, as well as regional specialists.While Congress is expected to acquiesce, if not formally authorize, the plans he outlined in his nationally televised...Obama, victims’ families pause to remember those lost on 9/11
NEW YORK — Politicians, dignitaries and victims' relatives gathered in New York City, at the Pentagon and in rural Pennsylvania on Thursday to remember the nearly 3,000 people killed in al Qaeda's attack on the United States 13 years ago on Sept. 11.President Obama spoke at the Pentagon during a private ceremony for relatives of the...
On the 13th anniversary of 9/11, we are less safe
September 12th, 20140 On Sept. 11, 2001, more than 3,000 innocent people lost their lives when terrorists struck the United States. On the eve of Sept. 11, 2014, 13 years and two wars later, the president addressed the nation about combating yet another growing terrorist threat, one already targeting our citizens abroad and planning to reach our......
Losing the plot: Israel’s premier to face new Gaza reality
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s war-turned-genocide in Gaza has backfired badly - his strategy has helped resurrect Hamas, the very movement he tried desperately to crush.Aside from being a major military setback, Israel’s war on Gaza has also disoriented the policies of Netanyahu like never before. Since the...
Council, mayor respond to ‘Terrorist Watch’ list
September 12th, 20140 DEARBORN — At its Sept. 9 meeting, the Dearborn City Council got around to addressing the classified government documents which alleged that Dearborn has the second highest number of "known or suspected terrorists" in the country and which were leaked by The Intercept last month.The documents caused controversy with the charge that......
Analysts: Libya’s fate difficult to predict
September 12th, 20140 An Islamist fighter from the Fajr Libya (Libyan Dawn) coalition flashes the V sign for victory at the entrance of Tripoli international airport on August 24.As Libya slides deeper into political and military chaos, uncertainty reigns and analysts say it’s difficult to anticipate how things will unfold.Some say Libya needs regional or...
10 Arab states sign communique supporting U.S. intervention against “Islamic State”
September 12th, 20140 RIYADH — The United States signed up Arab allies on Thursday to a "coordinated military campaign" against "Islamic State" fighters, a major step in building regional support for President Obama's plan to strike both sides of the Syrian-Iraqi frontier.After talks in Saudi Arabia's summer capital Jeddah, Secretary of State John Kerry......