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Justifying censorship at Edsel Ford High
March 7th, 20090 When Deanna Suleiman, copy editor of Edsel Ford High's school newspaper, The Bolt, used her free speech right to express dissatisfaction with American and Israeli policies toward the Palestinians, she had no idea what trouble she was about to cause. Deanna and her colleagues at The Bolt had excitedly prepared and posted the...In response to censorship at Edsel Ford
To the editor: I am writing in response to your paper picking up the story regarding Edsel Ford High School and their pulling of Deanna Suleiman's OP-ED piece regarding the Israel/Palestine conflict from the school's website. Regardless of whether or not people liked the content of the article — the paper, the school, and the author...The golden age of Arab music
The period from the 1920s to the 1950s is considered the "golden age" of Egyptian cinema, but it was also a golden age of song in many parts of the Arab world — in particular, Egypt, Lebanon and Syria. Composer and multi-instrumentalist Simon Shaheen Many of these countries' greatest singers and composers reached...
“The Big Read” to encourage literacy and celebrate late Egyptian Nobel winner
March 7th, 20090 DEARBORN — The Arab American National Museum in Dearborn is hosting a month-long celebration of the life and works of Naguib Mahfouz, the first Arab writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988, with free books available all month. Called "The Big Read" and made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts...
ACC program tackles mental health
March 7th, 20090 Severe mental health issues are almost never at the forefront of conversation, but discussion in the Arab community is even more rare according to ACT Team Leader Amy Rahhall. Amy Rahhall The Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) program, which is run through the Arab American and Chaldean Council through funding from the...
CIA holds appreciation dinner
March 7th, 20090 The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) held an appreciation dinner for leaders of the Arab American and Chaldean community on Wednesday at the Westin Hotel in Southfield. CIA Associate Deputy Director Scott White Members of the Congress of Arab American Organizations (CAAO), the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee...Community news briefs: Huge crowd expected for ACCESS job fair
DEARBORN — With the job market as tough as it's been in decades, the first ACCESS (Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services) job fair of 2009 is expected to be as packed and competitive as ever. The spring job fair, one of three held during the year at ACCESS, will take place on Wednesday, March 18, 2009 at the Dearborn...
Video: Largest ever Arab arts festival in U.S. opens
March 3rd, 20090 The largest ever Arab arts festival in the U.S., "Arabesque: Arts of the Arab World," opened at the Kennedy Center in Washington last week. The first in a series of PBS reports on the three-week festival, which aired on Feb. 23, sets the scene with interviews of the aritists, Kennedy Center President Michael Kaiser and Alicia Adams,...Ethnic cleansing goes on in Jerusalem
JERUSALEM — Israel plans to demolish 88 homes in Silwan, a Palestinian neighborhood in East Jerusalem, to make way for a new archaeological park, adding new fuel to the slow-burning dispute over Jerusalem. Palestinian boys play soccer in the Arab neighbourhood of Silwan in east Jerusalem February 24, 2009 REUTERS/Ammar Awad A...Palestinian landowners kept in dark over Efrat settlement expansion
BETHLEHEM — An Israeli military tribunal has issued a decision that could pave the way for the expansion of the West Bank settlement of Efrat without informing a group of Palestinians who were petitioning to save their land. Local youths hold candles during a protest against the presence of illegal Jewish settlements in the...
Palestinian factions meet in Cairo
February 28th, 20090 Palestinian negotiator Ahmed Qurei (sitting 3rd L) reads out a statement during a news conference in Cairo, February 26, 2009. A dozen Palestinian groups launched a long-awaited dialogue on Thursday and laid out a plan to tackle key issues that could reunite Palestinians after 18 months of schism between Gaza and the West Bank....Development report shows slow progress in Arab World
WASHINGTON — Mired in conflict, afflicted by joblessness, frustrated by unresponsive and oppressive governments, and flooded with images of woe, the world's 22 Arab nations have much to lament. Yet, they are also making rapid, if insufficient, progress in building societies that will thrive in the global economy and fulfill the...Hamas won’t give in to blackmail
RAMALLAH (IPS) — At the eleventh hour, just as a permanent ceasefire painfully mediated by the Egyptians after weeks of intensive shuttle diplomacy was about to take effect, Israel suddenly changed its preconditions for a settlement with Hamas. This has left the Palestinians, especially Gazans, the Egyptians, the Hamas leadership and...Novelists are not the only ones who tell lies
Editor's note: In this powerful speech, the great Japanese writer explains why he chose to accept a literary prize in Israel. Novelist Haruki Murakami of Japan Reuters I have come to Jerusalem today as a novelist, which is to say as a professional spinner of lies. Of course, novelists are not the only ones who tell...Muslims reject terror tactics, back some goals
WASHINGTON – Strong majorities of people in predominantly Muslim countries reject terrorism but support key goals of Al Qaeda, notably expelling U.S. military forces from the Islamic world, according to a major new study of public opinion in seven nations and the Palestinian territories released here Wednesday. Nearly 90 percent......
Divided we stand awaiting elections
On Feb. 14, supporters of the March 14th anti-Syrian movement thronged in time-honored tradition to Martyrs Square in downtown Beirut to commemorate the assassination of former prime minister Rafik Al-Hariri four years ago — a show of strength that has become a fixture of Lebanese politics. Saad Hariri at a Beirut...
World news briefs: Is pasta humanitarian aid?
February 28th, 20090 When Rep. Keith Ellison visited the Gaza Strip earlier this month, he reported back on some of his concerns about humanitarian aid for the Palestinians. He said even basic food items were being blocked at the border. U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn. Israeli officials said pasta isn't food aid. Ellison learned about some...FBI losing partnership with Arab, Muslim communities
The revelation this week that the FBI used paid informants and agents provocateur in U.S. mosques who have participated in law enforcement outreach efforts undermines the decade-long relationship that Arab Americans and American Muslims have built with law enforcement. This news sends a devastating message to community leaders and imams...Memo to Obama: Urgent action needed in Mideast
We do not know what special envoy George Mitchell told President Barack Obama after his tour of the Middle East. But here is what I hope he is telling the president now. "Mr. President, unfortunately I do not have good news. It is easy to misjudge Israel. It is indeed a country that thrives in certain respects, but politically it has......
The Israeli occupation binds together Syria, Iran and the resistance
Washington is now listening intently to Syria. Last week, the Democratic Chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator John Kerry, met with Syrian President Bashar Assad. And this week, Syria's ambassador to the United States visits a high level official in the State Department. There is an improvement in relations as...
Money, name recognition push Bing, Cockrel past primary
February 28th, 20090 DETROIT — Detroit businessman Dave Bing and incumbent Mayor Ken Cockrel Jr. came out on top in Tuesday's special mayoral primary election. The two will face off in a May 5 runoff. Detroit businessman Dave Bing Reuters The winner will serve out the remainder of ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's term,......
CAAO meets with U.S. Congress members to push community agenda
February 28th, 20090 Congress of Arab American Organizations representatives Nabih Ayad, L, Sufian Nabhan, Imad Hamad with Sen. Carl Levin, CAAO member Abed Hammoud, Jim Allen, Osama Siblani and Ali Baleed Almaklani at Levin's Dearborn office on Feb. 18. Representatives of the Congress of Arab American Organizations met with or held a conference...
First web issue of school paper pulled over article critical of Israel
February 28th, 20090 DEARBORN — A group of young journalists taking their school newspaper online for the first time suffered a setback last month when all of its web content was ordered removed after a controversial editorial on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was published. Deanna Suleiman, R, works on the Edsel Ford High School newspaper The......
