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Sisters excel in academics, volleyball
December 26th, 20080 Coach credits mother as excellent role model for girls DEARBORN - Becoming a good volleyball player at the high school level is not easy. It takes discipline, commitment, and above all else, hours and hours of practice and hard work. The Bazzi sisters Sara (center) and Sahar (bottom) grew up playing volleyball together, giving...
Television goes digital in February
December 26th, 20080 Deadline to apply for converter coupons Dec. 31 On Feb. 17, 2009, the nation will switch from analog (over-the-air) television to digital television. More than 21 million households will be affected by the switch and most are unaware of the change, according to civil rights leadership education website civilrights.org. Using rabbit...Registration open for award-winning photo academy
Thirty slots available at no charge DEARBORN- SURA Arts Academy, a free, diversity-themed digital photography instruction program for youth run by the Arab American National Museum (AANM), is accepting registrations for the Spring 2009 semester, which begins on January 20 and concludes on April 7. Thirty (30) slots are available at no...
Black-Arab collaboration focuses on commonalities
December 26th, 20080 Music blends cultures, histories Rap Artists Zhao-Ski and Big A Local hip hop artist Zhao-Ski describes Detroit as a symbol of resolute optimism in spite of all the disasters it's endured. It's a city, he said, that encompassed hope of a brighter future for African Americans who endured Jim Crow oppression in the south,...
Salon’s secret is making clients feel at home
December 26th, 20080 DEARBORN - It's been just a month since Milan's on Monroe Nail Salon opened on the west side of Dearborn, but already, word has spread quickly across the city and beyond. Milan's on Monroe employee Zena Jawad (left) gives a manicure to fellow employee Fadia Shuayto (right) at Milan's on Monroe Nail Salon. PHOTOS: Nick...
The shoe heard round the world
December 20th, 20080 Donated shoes labeled with names of Iraqis who died during the war in Iraq are displayed during a protest in front of the White House in Washington December 17, 2008. REUTERS/Molly Riley It's not surprising that since the George W. Bush shoe-dodging incident the U.S. media has been recalling the infamous "shoeing" of the...
Gaza families eat grass as Israel locks border
December 20th, 20080 As a convoy of blue-and-white United Nations trucks loaded with food waited last night for Israeli permission to enter Gaza, Jindiya Abu Amra and her 12-year-old daughter went scrounging for the wild grass their family now lives on. A Palestinian displays her United Nations ration card as she asks for food supplies from the...
ADC fights to keep doors open amid economic downturn
December 20th, 20080 DEARBORN — The local regional office of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) continues to struggle with severe financial trouble and faces the possibility of cutting staff or even closing its doors, despite a sell-out crowd at its annual gala, held Dec. 12. Attorney David Cole (L) receives a "Guardian of Civil...Obama picks LaHood for transportation secretary
WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama has selected U.S. Rep. Ray LaHood for transportation secretary, which would make him the second Republican in the Cabinet, a senior Democrat said on Wednesday. U.S. Rep. Ray LaHood Obama offered LaHood, 63, of Illinois the post and the lawmaker, who is retiring from Congress, is...Cross-country hope for Obama
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama speaks during a news conference in Chicago December 18, 2008. REUTERS/Jeff Haynes On Sunday, Dec. 14, 15 people in Flagstaff, Ariz. responded to the Obama campaign's invitation to attend a "change is coming" house meeting that one woman — with a little help from her friends — agreed to host....
In new ads, Palestinians try to sway Israeli public on peace plan
December 20th, 20080 Palestinian children hold candles as part of the Global Peace Rally at the office of Palestinian Legislator Mustafa Barghouti (not pictured) in the West Bank city of Hebron, December 7, 2008. REUTERS/Nayef Hashlamoun Tel Aviv/Ramallah — Along Route 2, which follows the Mediterranean coastline, motorists are seeing an unusual...Obama urged not to delay talks
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama speaks at a news conference in Chicago Dec.18, 2008 REUTERS/Jeff Haynes Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran April 21, 2008. REUTERS/Raheb HomavandiTEHRAN (IPS) — In light of the Iranian presidential election coming in mid-2009 and the U.S. distaste for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,...Defeat for U.S. in Iraq?
Residents gather at the site of bomb attacks in Baghdad's Nahdha neighborhood December 17, 2008. Twin blasts killed 18 people and wounded 53 in central Baghdad on Wednesday as British Prime Minister Gordon Brown made an unannounced visit to Iraq, police said. REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani On November 27, the Iraqi parliament voted by...Will Obama end pay-to-play in Mideast policy?
Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich The incoming Obama administration is scrambling to distance itself from the scandal emanating from the president-elect's home state. It is still too early to tell how much Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's alleged attempt to sell the president-elect's Senate seat in exchange for $1 million may taint...Security Council backs Mideast peace push
Palestinian children hold candles as part of the Global Peace Rally at the office of Palestinian Legislator Mustafa Barghouti (not pictured) in the West Bank city of Hebron, December 7, 2008. REUTERS/Nayef Hashlamoun UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council this week passed its first resolution in five years aimed at giving......
Interrogator appears on CBC
Damien Corsetti, a former U.S. military intelligence investigator who acted as an interrogator at Bagram in Afghanistan and at Abu Graib in Iraq, was interviewed recently on CBC. His interrogation methods were brutal and obscene, as revealed both in the interview and in other reports about his conduct. He screamed at prisoners. He pushed...
The pragmatism of ethnic cleansing
December 20th, 20080 Palestinians enter the United Nations headquarters in Khan Younis refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip December 18, 2008. A United Nations aid agency said on Thursday it had run out of flour and would suspend food deliveries to 750,000 Palestinians in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip after Israel closed border crossings....
ACC opens hearts to Iraqi refugee children
December 20th, 20080 Group forgoes annual executive party to help children have a good holiday OAK PARK — The Arab American and Chaldean Council (ACC) skipped its annual Board of Directors holiday party this year and instead offered help to a group of Iraqi refugee children. Students whose families recently came to the U.S. as refugees from Iraq...
Arab Americans making a difference in Iraq
December 20th, 20080 Company running interpreter service praises community's contributions DEARBORN — A retired four-star Army general spoke at the Arab American National Museum on Monday about the role translators from the local community play in rebuilding Iraq. Retired four-star Army General Barry McCaffrey (R) after receiving a key to the......
Man alleges racial, religious discrimination
December 20th, 20080 DEARBORN — The Wal-Mart in Dearborn has been a source of controversy for the city since opening in March 2008, and that trend continued Thursday as a $12-million lawsuit was filed on behalf of a Dearborn man alleging racial discrimination. Nabih Ayad and Associates law firm members (from left to right) Mona Fadlallah, Steve...
Muslim’s scarf leads to arrest at courthouse
December 20th, 20080 A Douglasville, Ga. woman was jailed Tuesday after a judge found her in contempt of court for refusing to remove her hijab, the head covering worn by Muslim women. Lisa Valentine, also known by her Islamic name, Miedah, 40, was arrested at the Douglasville Municipal Court for violating a court policy of no headgear, said Chris......
Huge drug bust includes one Dearborn man
Three Michigan men, including one from Dearborn, have been charged in the largest illegal pill distribution scheme in the history of southeast Michigan. United States Attorney Terrence S. Berg announced the unsealing of a criminal complaint charging a medical business owner, a doctor and a pharmacist with conspiring to unlawfully...Haddad begins job as Dearborn police chief
DEARBORN — Mayor Jack O'Reilly's appointment of Ron Haddad as the city's new police chief became official on Monday when Haddad was sworn-in by City Clerk Kathy Buda. O'Reilly selected Haddad to head the department in October, citing Haddad's extensive career on the front lines and in police administration, and his far-reaching......
