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Saudi king visits Syria to boost ties
The king of Saudi Arabia visited Damascus last Wednesday for talks with the Syrian president aimed at healing a long-standing rift between the two countries. Syria's President Bashar al-Assad (R) welcomes King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia at the al-Shaeb presidential palace in Damascus October 7, 2009. King Abdullah...How Israel bought off UN’s war crimes probe
Israel celebrated last weekend its success at the United Nations in forcing the Palestinians to defer demands that the International Criminal Court investigate allegations of war crimes committed by Israel during its winter assault on the Gaza Strip. The about-turn, following vigorous lobbying from Israel and the United States,...After Goldstone, Hamas faces fateful choice
The uproar over the Palestinian Authority's (PA) collaboration with Israel to bury the Goldstone Report, calling for trials of Israeli leaders for war crimes in Gaza, is a political earthquake. The whole political order in place since the 1993 Oslo accords were signed is crumbling. As the initial tremors begin to fade, the same old...Girls’ conference seeks to educate, inspire
Girls Matter, a nonprofit group focused on boosting self-esteem and leadership skills in young girls, is to host an annual conference Saturday, Oct. 10, featuring workshops for girls age 9-17, their parents and professionals who serve girls in Metro Detroit, 9 a.m.-2:15 p.m. at Schoolcraft College's VisTaTech Center, 18600 Haggerty...Muslims donating medical care
In a small quiet medical clinic in a poor neighborhood in Detroit, the uninsured are received with courtesy and kindness, see a physician, have the required diagnostic work done and sent on their way with the medication they need or a prescription for it and instructions on where to get it filled. They also have a return appointment....
U.S. Commerce Secretary visits Arab American community, listens to business concerns
October 10th, 20090 About 70 business owners and community leaders attend a meeting with U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke at the Lebanese American Heritage Club in Dearborn on Tuesday. PHOTOS: Nafeh Abu Nab/American Elite Studios DEARBORN — U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke did not have all the answers to Michigan's economic woes, or to many...Judges Kelly and Keith honored with “Gaurdian of Justice” awards
Prominent judges from throughout the region attended the 8th Annual ADC Judges Night at Bint Jebeil Cultural Center in Dearborn on Thursday. DEARBORN - The American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) hosted its 8th Annual Judges Night at Bint Jebail Cultural Center in Dearborn on Oct. 1, with the goal of honoring...
4,000 U.S. troops to exit sooner from Iraq. More ready for Afghanistan?
October 8th, 20090 WASHINGTON —The top U.S. commander in Iraq is accelerating the number of troops he is sending back home even as he remains cautious that violence could threaten January's elections there. U.S. Colonel Martin D. Seifer (L) and Samir al-Haddad, Secretariat for Committee for Receiving Real Property, sign documents during a hand...
ACC celebrates clients’ recoveries
October 8th, 20090 DETROIT — Standing in the middle of poverty-stricken Detroit like an oasis in the desert, the Arab and Chaldean Council Clubhouse has established itself as a place of healing for Wayne County residents suffering with mental and substance abuse problems. Joyce Johnson (left) helped give Youkhana Kako the support he needed...
She’s only 17 and she’s dead either way
October 8th, 20090 Ever since Rifqa Bary ran away from her home in Columbus, Ohio in early August, the ex-Muslim's story of an alleged imminent honor killing at the hands of her parents for her conversion to Christianity has galvanized the Right in a way reminiscent of the Terry Schiavo case. Short on facts but big on opportunism, the Right sought to...Riots may point to third Palestinian uprising
EAST JERUSALEM (IPS) — Palestinian politicians and Israeli political analysts are warning of a third Palestinian intifada following serious rioting in East Jerusalem last Sunday. Palestinians carry the body of Fuad Torokman during his funeral in the West Bank town of Yabad, near Jenin September 30, 2009. An Israeli army jeep...Michigan poverty rate climbs to 14.4 percent
Voter forums held, guides released DEARBORN HEIGHTS — The League of Women Voters hosted a City Council forum for both Dearborn and Dearborn Heights on Sept. 29 and 30, coinciding with the release of their new non-partisan voter guide just over a month out from the city's general elections. At the Dearborn Heights council forum at...A new approach to U.S. aid in the Muslim world
The American University of Beirut (AUB), from which tens of thousands of Arab leaders have graduated over the last 140 years, is a shining example of foreign aid put to good use. What distinguishes the graduates of AUB is not only leadership and a sense of service to the Arab world; graduates of this New York-chartered university are...
Book casts new light on Palestine’s ethnic cleansing
October 7th, 20090 A Palestinian boy flashes a victory sign as he holds a stone during a protest near the Nahal Oz crossing between Israel and the northern Gaza Strip September 16, 2009. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem In recent years, a growing number of accounts of the 1948 war have corrected and exposed the founding myths of Israel, including claims...More lies, more deception
The G-20 ministers declared their meeting in Pittsburgh a success, but as Rob Kall reports in OpEdNews.com, the meeting's main success was to turn Pittsburgh into "a ghost-town, emptied of workers and the usual pedestrians, but filled to overflowing with over 12,000 swat cops from all over the US." Ali Akbar Salehi, head of......
Eyeless in Gaza: Obama’s Palestine flop
Obama's peace initiative on Palestine suffered a stunning, perhaps fatal, blow last week. Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu rejected out of hand any freeze on the West Bank settlements which the White House had pressed as a necessary first step toward serious negotiations. The Obama plan is now stillborn, never having drawn a...Part 4: Reflecting on 25 years of The Arab American News
Michigan elected officials comment on The Arab American News' silver anniversary: On behalf of the citizens of Wayne County, I would like to congratulate The Arab American News on celebrating 25 years of publication. Your commitment to the cultural, educational and political empowerment of this community has been a hallmark of your...The lying game goes on
The current drum-beating for war against Iran is based on a fake "nuclear threat" with the manufacture of a sense of false crisis which is what led to our invasion of Iraq and the deaths of 1.3 million people. In 2001, the Observer in London published a series of reports that claimed an Iraqi connection to al-Qaeda, even describing the...UAE accused of expelling Lebanese Shi’a
BEIRUT — The United Arab Emirates has expelled dozens of long-term Lebanese Shi'a residents from the country over their presumed affiliation with Hizbullah, a representative said on Wednesday. "The common factor among all those expelled in the past three months is that they are all Shii'a and as such are part of a community that......
Riyadh ‘offers airspace’ for Israel attack on Iran?
Israeli fighter jets will be allowed to use Saudi airspace to launch go-it-alone air strikes on Iranian nuclear installations, says a recent report. The issue has been discussed in a closed-door meeting in London, where British Intelligence Chief Sir John Scarlett, his Israeli counterpart, Meir Dagan, and a Saudi official were...EAST JERUSALEM — A diplomat visits, and listens
EAST JERUSALEM — The U.S. consulate on Agron Street is something alien in the carefully calibrated diplomatic world of Arab-Israeli politics. No state has its embassy to Israel in Jerusalem. Israel insists the eastern part of the city which it annexed in the wake of the 1967 Arab-Israel War is an integral part of its "re-united"......
Students lose school, parents lose thousands in surprise closure of academy
DETROIT — A Detroit private school attended by Muslim students, mostly from Dearborn, closed abruptly last week, leaving over 100 kids without a school. Frustrated parents of former students of the American Muslim Academy in Detroit discuss the school’s abrupt closure during a meeting at the Islamic library of Dearborn on...
Composer, pianist bridges cultures
September 30th, 20090 There are still plenty of things the outside world doesn't understand about Arab culture, but in the quest to inform more people about its accomplishments and beauty, the potential of using the universal language of music can't be overstated. Syrian composer and pianist Malek Jandali: "The goal was to make sure to take the......
