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Restaurant remodels to rave reviews
February 27th, 20090 DEARBORN HEIGHTS – In today’s market, owning a Middle Eastern restaurant in the Dearborn and Dearborn Heights area is much more difficult than it used to be. Co-owners (from left) Hassan Hachem and his brother Mike pose with their waitstaff inside Beirut by Night restaurant in Dearborn Heights. PHOTOS: Nick...Movie explores 1982 massacres
A special showing of the critically acclaimed and Academy Award nominated Israeli film "Waltz With Bashir" will be held on Saturday, February 28, at the Michigan Theatre in Ann Arbor. This is perhaps the most highly regarded film to ever come out of Israel. It has already won the National Society of Film Critics award for Best...
Video: Former President Carter weighs in Israel-Palestine conflict on Tavis Smiley
February 24th, 20090 Former President Jimmy Carter outlined obstacles for a peace deal in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a guest on PBS' "Tavis Smiley" on Feb. 16, addressing illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank, the separation barrier that cuts deep into Palestinian land and the Hamas resistance. In this segment, Carter said many of the...
Video: Students allowed to wear kuffiyehs after protests
February 24th, 20090 Two students at a Monroeville, Pa. high school were asked to remove, then allowed to wear their kufiyyehs – traditional Arab scarves worn increasingly in the U.S. as cultural, political or fashion statements – last week after fellow students complained the garments signified support for terrorism. Pittsburgh's CBS news affiliate...Iraq’s Sunnis joining Shi’a pilgrims
BAGHDAD — Sheikh Mohammad al-Ethawi, resplendent in his gold-trimmed robe and white headdress, hands out oranges to Shi'a pilgrims walking by a striped tent on the main route to the holy city of Karbala. Shi'a and Sunni 'Sons of Iraq' guard force lay down their rifles to serve Shi'a pilgrims on their way to Karbala south of...
Arab American quarterback to play for Wolverines
February 21st, 20090 Ann Arbor Pioneer quarterback Nader Furrha will play for Michigan next year as a preferred walk-on after turning down scholarships from several Division-2 schools. Photo courtesy of Nader Furrha Growing up across from Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor, Nader Furrha dreamed of playing on the big stage in the Big House in front of more...Signs of a thaw, but differences run deep
WASHINGTON - Two high-level U.S. Congressional delegations are setting out for Syria to meet with President Bashar Al Assad. The trips are seen as a precursor for engagement with Syria, but the extent of possible diplomatic deal-making is still in question. U.S. Senator Benjamin L. Cardin (C) speaks during a news conference...
Is the U.S. repeating Soviet mistakes in Afghanistan?
February 21st, 20090 A U.S. soldier with Alpha Company, 32nd Infantry Regiment provides security during a visit by his unit at Khas Kunar refugee camp, Kunar Province, eastern Afghanistan February 18, 2009. REUTERS/Oleg Popov KABUL, Afghanistan — Twenty years to the day after the last Soviet soldier left Afghanistan, Dastagir Arizad ticked off...
Kerry first American official to visit Gaza after Hamas takeover
February 21st, 20090 U.S. Senator John Kerry (D-MA) speaks with a Palestinian man (L) during his visit to the destroyed American International School in the northern Gaza Strip February 19, 2009. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem The U.S. will not change its stance towards Hamas, John Kerry, the former democratic U.S. presidential candidate, has said during a tour...Window closing for a two-state solution
WASHINGTON — Two states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security. Palestinians warm themselves by a fire, as others take cover from the rain, under the ruins of their destroyed house in Jabalya in the northern Gaza Strip February 17, 2009. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem When the "two-state solution" became the...
YOUR MONEY: Why NOT to buy a foreclosed property
February 21st, 20090 The more depressed the real estate market gets, the more the promoters come out from under the woodwork, under their rocks, or wherever they have been hiding, to pitch their expensive—and unrealistic—plans and programs about how to get rich in real estate through foreclosures. Right now, the residential real estate market is...Israel imposes conditions on ceasefire
JERUSALEM (IPS) — Israel's outgoing prime minister Ehud Olmert is risking a crisis of confidence with Egypt by insisting that a prisoner exchange between Israel and Hamas precede any Egyptian-mediated ceasefire arrangement to end the Gaza war. Israel's President Shimon Peres meets members the Shas party in Jerusalem February...YOUR MONEY: Enabling first time home buyers
DEARBORN— Among the most effective economic stimulus policies proposed by President Obama and passed by Democrats in Congress this week is a refundable, $8,000 tax credit payable to first time homebuyers and those who have not owned a home for three years. According to the National Association of Realtors (NAR), the bill provides for...Regional deals won’t harm Lebanon
BEIRUT — U.S. Sen. John Kerry said on Wednesday that the new administration will press Syria to help disarm Hizbullah as it forges ahead with a fresh diplomatic approach in the region. John Kerry, Chairman of the U.S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee (L) shakes hands with Lebanon's Prime Minister Fouad Siniora at the...Thousands rally in Beirut on Hariri assassination anniversary
BEIRUT – A massive crowd of flag-waving Lebanese filled Martyrs' Square on Saturday to remember slain former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri — an occasion his supporters used to rally the public before parliamentary elections in which they are struggling to stay in power. Tens of thousands of Lebanese attend a rally near the......
Hassan or Grant — no religion excuses domestic violence
February 21st, 20090 Muzzammil Hassan, 44, allegedly beheaded his wife, Aasiya Hassan, 37, last week and surrendered to police. Hassan was later charged with the second-degree murder of his wife, whose body was found at the office of Bridges TV, their television station in Orchard Park, near Buffalo, New York. Muzzammil Hassan and his late wife...Obama not likely to change Mideast policy
Almost a thousand Palestinian civilians were dead from Israel's recent Blitz on Gaza before Barack Obama interrupted his mantra, that there's only one president at a time, to bemoan what he called a tragedy for both sides. Israel suffered civilian losses, too, after all. Three to be exact. And if Obama, the consummate underdog, didn't...One-state solution requires shared state of mind
In the future, Israelis and Palestinians may find it natural to live together in a single, integrated and democratic state. However, planning for a one-state solution unilaterally is bound to be risky, if not deadly. But as hope for reaching a two-state solution erodes, the one-state solution emerges as an attractive alternative. The...Why we must boycott Starbucks
The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against apartheid Israel is gaining momentum around the world. The boycott of Starbucks is Michigan's modest contribution to the worldwide movement. Here are a few other examples: • South African dock workers refused to unload Israeli ships (Feb. 3rd 2009) • Church of......
What Israel must do to save itself
Tantalus is punished by the Gods for reasons that are not entirely clear. He is hungry and thirsty, but the water in which he stands recedes when he bends down to drink from it and the fruit above his head continually evades his hand. Tzipi Livni Tzipi Livni is now undergoing a similar torture. After winning an impressive...
Mayoral candidates address community concerns in AAPAC forum
February 21st, 20090 DETROIT — Five of the 15 candidates running for mayor and facing a Feb. 24 primary addressed a crowd at the Islamic Center of Detroit on Feb. 13 in a forum organized by the Arab American Public Affairs Council (AAPAC). Candidate for Detroit mayor Sharon McPhail speaks to a crowd during an AAPAC election forum at the Islamic......
Mayoral primary Feb. 24, two more candidate profiles
February 21st, 20090 Wayne County Sheriff Evans making headway The special election for Detroit mayor is fast approaching, and so far, almost all of the attention has been on the perceived "big three" candidates. But Warren Evans scored a big victory for his campaign recently that might give the Wayne County Sheriff enough publicity for a chance...
O’Reilly plans department shake up
February 21st, 20090 DEARBORN — Mayor Jack O'Reilly on Wednesday announced a planned shake up of a city department and voiced a message of hope despite harsh economic times in his State of the City Address. Dearborn mayor Jack O'Reilly stands with residents Suehaila Amen, Lucia Gliese and Art Hughes, at the Henry Ford Centennial Library auditorium......
