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The Palestinian experiment: A defining turn
All my forewarnings have suddenly actualized, all at once: Gaza has descended into total and utter chaos; Abbas has capitulated to Israel and to the United States without a shred of reservation, and the Palestinian democratic experiment, which was until recently an astounding success, has been smashed to bits. For years I have...
Bush, Olmert aim toward disastar
June 24th, 20070 What would it take to persuade Israel to rethink its attitude towards its Arab neighbors — and primarily towards the Palestinians? The Hamas victory in Gaza is surely a clear signal that an Israeli change of direction is urgently needed. All Israel’s efforts to break the democratically-elected Hamas government have failed. Its...
Carter blasts U.S. policy on Palestinians
June 24th, 20070 DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) - Former President Jimmy Carter accused the U.S., Israel and the European Union on Tuesday of seeking to divide the Palestinian people by reopening aid to President Mahmoud Abbas' new government in the West Bank while denying the same to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. Carter Carter, a Nobel Peace Prize...
Why Mahmoud Abbas has failed
June 24th, 20070 The breakdown of the domestic political order in Gaza last week reflects the clear failure of the current Palestinian leadership under Mahmoud Abbas to achieve its people's national rights to statehood, security and a normal life, and the consequent need for a combination of new leadership blood and better policies. Since their...Helen Thomas: Media watchdog 57 years in the front seat at White House press briefings
Helen Thomas has been the epitome of journalistic integrity for over 57 years, serving as a correspondent and White House bureau chief for United Press International. She has covered every U.S. president since John F. Kennedy, and continues to be a dynamic leader in the Washington press. Her leadership among women in the press is...Michael Husseini is an exceptional graduate!
DEARBORN — When Michael Husseini was one year old, his father wondered why he was rolling over rather than crawling like other children. Michael was not a small child, his father Samy Husseini recalls, "but he was incapable even of riding a tricycle. I thought he was lazy, he needed someone to push him." At two, Michael was walking...Amer family’s efforts pay off in foster care bill passed by house
LANSING — In an effort to improve Michigan's foster care system, the Michigan House of Representatives this week passed reforms that bolster the rights of relatives who want to care for children entering foster care, give the state new tools to help locate relatives when children need to be placed in foster care, and help ensure that...Dearborn teacher arrested for internet sex
DEARBORN — Deputies of the Wayne County Sheriff's Internet Crimes Unit arrested a local schoolteacher who they say showed up for a meeting with whom he expected to be a 14-year-old boy for the purpose of having sex with him, Sheriff Warren C. Evans announced on Thursday, June 20. Officers arrested the 37-year-old Dearborn resident,...Dr. Yahya Basha builds,and believes in the American dream
Radiologist Dr. Yahya Basha is a busy man. Visit his office and you'll find Hhim surrounded by assistants and swimming in phone calls, people constantly clamoring for his opinions on medicine and community affairs. The founder and president of Basha Diagnostics, a multi-site diagnostic imaging company that competes with major...Obama closes gap with Clinton in fundraising
Democrat Barack Obama raked in $25 million for his presidential bid in the first three months of 2007, placing him on a par with front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton and dashing her image as the party's inevitable nominee. The donations came from an eye-popping 100,000 donors, the campaign said in a statement Wednesday. The figures...Israel leaves few Christians in Holy Land
Palestinian Christians are on their last breath in the Holy Land. This was the overwhelming conclusion of more than 300 international religious leaders and scholars recently at an impressive conference in Cleveland. The conference was co-sponsored by the Interfaith Council for Peace in the Middle East and Sabeel, a voice for...Public anxiety over foreign policy nears crisis
American peace activist Cindy Shehan wearing a t-shirt written on it in Arabic: We will not be silentWASHINGTON (IPS) — Increasingly anxious about the course of U.S. foreign policy under President George W. Bush, particularly in Iraq, the country appears to be moving toward a "full-blown crisis of public confidence," according to...Groups welcome Pelosi trip to Mideast
Nancy Pelosi meeting with Syrian foriegn minister Walid Al Moualim Washington — The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) this week welcomed Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's efforts on her recent trip to the Middle East. Specifically, the nation's largest Arab-American grassroots organization said it viewed Speaker...Belly headlines Detroit Hip-Hop Summit on finance
DETROIT - When Ahmad Balshe was seven years old, he fled war-torn Palestine with his family and settled in Ottawa, Canada. At age 10, his passion for hip-hop music surfaced and was enhanced by a love of poetry and creative writing. Today, at age 22, Balshe is referred to as "Belly" and is considered to be a "heavy-weight" in rap music....The cold war that could explode
Iran's President AhmadinejadsThe release of the 15 British naval personnel this week should not be seen solely within the context of the U.N. sanctions placed on Iran or the tough rhetoric from President George Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair. Neither should it be attributed to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's claim of doing......
Tough week for Bush Middle East strategy
April 9th, 20070 WASHINGTON (IPS) — To the extent the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush has a coherent Middle East policy, it took some serious hits this past week. No, not the democracy-promotion strategy, although that didn't fare very well either given what even the State Department conceded was the obvious rigging of the...
Jack Shaheen: A life dedicated to fighting racism
April 8th, 20070 Offensive, inaccurate, demonizing depictions of Arabs in American media is one of the most frequently lamented, painful aspects of the Arab American experience. Most have only complained in helpless frustration. But for the past 30 years, one green-eyed, soft-spoken, animated man from a polluted, working-class Pittsburgh-area steel...
The Arab peace initiative and the changing Middle East
April 5th, 20070 The rapid, almost hasty, developments on the Arab Israeli front, almost immediately following the Saudi sponsored Makkah Agreement on February 2, should be examined in their proper context, as a part and parcel of the regional shifts, exacerbated by the U.S. war in Iraq and the dramatic adjustment in Iran's position vis-à-vis the...
Will there be another civil war in Lebanon
April 5th, 20070 BEIRUT — A recent poll in Lebanon suggests deep pessimism about the chances of avoiding another civil war. Plenty of "wise owls" here think civil war is just a matter of time. No less an oracle than Tarek, the doorman at the Alexandria Hotel in Ashrafiyeh, where the Israeli Military Command had its headquarters during its 1982......
Arab leaders re-launch Mideast peace plan
April 4th, 20070 Servers offer Arabic coffee at the Arab summitRIYADH — Arab leaders on Thursday wrapped up a summit where they relaunched a five-year-old blueprint for peace in the Middle East, although Israel has rejected the plan as it stands. The 22-member Arab League gathering was declared over after Secretary General Amr Moussa read out a...Shaheen scholarship to be awarded at ADC Convention
Washington - The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) is currently accepting applications for the 2007 Jack G. Shaheen Mass Communications Scholarship. Dr. Shaheen is the world's foremost authority on media images of Arabs and the author of "Reel Bad Arabs," "Arab and Muslim Stereotyping in American Popular Culture,"......
Raji Rammuny: Internationally renowned Arabic language professor
April 4th, 20070 Professor Raji Rammuny has been teaching Arabic for nearly 50 years, and now, at 74, he is seeing what he calls the "Golden Age of Arabic and Islamic studies." As coordinator of the Arabic program at the Department of Near Eastern Studies of the University of Michigan, Rammuny is watching his programs expand and his class rosters...
Ed Deeb: A mover, a shaker and a peacemaker
April 4th, 20070 Ed Deeb goes to where there's trouble, and fixes things. For decades Deeb has brought together groups in conflict, whether unions and businesses, businesses and government entities, business-owners and residents, or clashing ethnic communities. "I'm a peacemaker. I make peace… The only way to make peace is to talk," said......
