Koubeissi Tae Kwon Do School students successful in state championships
April 3rd, 20150 FOWLERVILLE — By racking up nine gold medals and five silver medals at the Koubeissi Tae Kwon Do School athletes dominated the competition at the 2015 USAT Michigan Tae Kwon Do State Championships held here on March 28. Led by their head coach and instructor, Master Ali Koubeissi, each of the 15 highly-motivated and disciplined...
Library to host presentation on Islamic art in a Christian chapel
April 3rd, 20150 Al-Tawil. DEARBORN — The Henry Ford Centennial Library will host an event titled “Arab Norman Cultural Exchange in Sicily: Islamic Visual Art in a 12th Century Christian Chapel” on Wednesday, April 8 at 7 p.m.. The event will include a presentation by Henry Ford College professor Dr. Hashim Al-Tawil. It is free and open to the...New law to save gas station owners thousands each year
MICHIGAN — The state legislature worked with the Michigan Petroleum Association (MPA) and Bill Saad, the owner and CEO of Michigan Fuels, to develop a new law that creates the new Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Fund (USTCF). The USTCF is expected to save gas station owners and operators thousands of dollars a year. The new...
Dearborn joins Take On Hate campaign
April 3rd, 20150 DEARBORN — The city officially joined the Campaign to Take On Hate at the March 31 council meeting, following the paths of Detroit and Taylor. Council President Susan Dabaja introduced the Take On Hate resolution at the start of the meeting. Take On Hate, a metro-Detroit based movement that has gained major momentum across the...
ADC-MI director to teach first Arab American civil rights course at UM-D
April 3rd, 20150 DEARBORN — Beginning in the fall semester, Fatina Abdrabboh, the director of the ADC-Michigan, will be teaching a new class focused on civil rights at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. The course, entitled “Arab American Civil Rights”, is the first of its kind in the country. It was designed to advance knowledge about...
Local Yemenis united in agony, divided over politics of homeland
April 3rd, 20150 Houthis in the Yemeni city of Saana fire anti-aircraft weapons in the general direction of Saudi-led attacking warplanes March 30.DEARBORN — Local Yemeni Americans are united in the agony they feel for their homeland, but they are split into opposing camps about who is to blame for the crisis and how it can be solved. The war is...
Wayne County to consolidate offices
April 3rd, 20150 DETROIT — Wayne County Executive Warren Evans has announced plans to consolidate County office space. The move is expected to eventually save nearly $3 million annually in rent and maintenance costs and increase efficiency in County services. The County-owned Guardian Building is the most underutilized facility in...
ACC President Fakhouri honored at multiple events
April 3rd, 20150 DETROIT — Arab American and Chaldean Council President Dr. Haifa Fakhouri was recognized for her human rights efforts and leadership skills at multiple events last week. The Urban League of Detroit and Southeastern Michigan nominated Fakhouri as one of the honorees at its 36th Annual Salute to Distinguished Warriors Dinner, on...
Local chamber honors community businesses
April 3rd, 20150 DEARBORN — On March 26, during a ceremony at Byblos Banquet Hall, four local businesses were inducted into the 2015 American Arab Chamber of Commerce Entrepreneur Hall of Fame. This year’s Entrepreneur Hall of Fame inductees include Saad Abbo, founder of U.S. Ice Corporation; Sam Elhaf, president of Royal Furniture and...
Midwest Recycling continues humanitarian efforts through partnership with Red Cross
April 3rd, 20150 DEARBORN — Midwest Recycling is partnering with the American Red Cross of Southeast Michigan to benefit women, children and families in crisis. Since November, the Dearborn-based Midwest Recycling has donated more than $17,000 to the American Red Cross - Southeast Michigan Chapter through the partnership. Founded in...
Arab American National Museum expands
April 3rd, 20150 Mayor O'Reilly cutting the ribbon at the innauguration of the Annex, March 27DEARBORN — The Arab American National Museum is growing both in size and reputation. As the museum added a 4,700-square-foot performance hall dubbed "the Annex", it announced that its exhibit "Little Syria" would be displayed at Ellis Island, the...
Arab American fatally shot at his Lincoln Park pawn shop
April 1st, 20150 LINCOLN PARK—On the day before his wedding anniversary, 29-year-old Dearborn resident Mouhammed Hassan was killed during a robbery at the pawn shop he owned.Hassan was shot in the head at his Platinum Pawn Shop March 31 at around 10:30 p.m. His cell phone was taken during the robbery. Police...
U of M student government votes down divestment resolution
April 1st, 20150 Students raising their hands as a gesture for applause during the CSG meeting, March 31ANN ARBOR — The University of Michigan student government voted against a resolution to set up a committee to investigate the human rights record of four companies that do business with the Israeli military, after hours of debate in which more than...
Dearborn police apprehend suspect involved in car break-in
March 30th, 20150 DEARBORN—On Friday, March 27 after 2 p.m. Dearborn Police were dispatched to a business on Telegraph because a car was broken into and a woman’s purse was stolen. A white male suspect was observed leaving the scene in a blue Chevy van. A witness followed the van and the victim contacted police...
Former head of WJR Mike Fezzey dies
March 28th, 20150 FezzeyDETROIT—Huntington Bank executive and former head of WJR radio Mike Fezzey passed away Friday night. Fezzey was 58. He was the Huntington National Bank regional president who previously served as WJR's president and general manager. Fezzey was visiting Naples, Florida for work and preparing to return to Michigan when he......
Dearborn Police arrest motorist after police chase
March 28th, 20150 DEARBORN - The tail end of a police chase on Friday, March 27 was captured on camera by local bystanders.Police chased after a motorist in east Dearborn until they were finally able to capture him on Warren, east of Greenfield Rd. The man resisted arrest and attempted to flee the scene. We are also being told he collided his...
Party store owner shot and killed in Clinton Township
March 27th, 20150 CLINTON TOWNSHIP—Emil Salem, 50, the owner of Bernie’s Party Store in Clinton Township was fatally gunned down yesterday after a suspect entered the business around 11 p.m. waving a gun. The incident was caught on video. The suspect was wearing a black hoodie, black pants and white handkerchief on his...
10th annual Arab Student Union banquet celebrates past and present
March 27th, 20150 Former and present ASU members with ADC-MI Director Fatina Abdrabboh, recipient of the "Empowering the Youth" Award.DEARBORN — The Arab Student Union (ASU) at the University of Michigan-Dearborn continues to serve as a platform for students to increase positive awareness of Arab American heritage and debunk stereotypes about the...
U of M students launch divestment campaign
March 27th, 20150 ANN ARBOR — A Palestinian solidarity group at the University of Michigan launched a campaign to divest from companies that profit from the Israeli military. Students Allied for Freedom and Equality (SAFE) proposed the divestment resolution to the Central Student Government (CSG) on Tuesday, March 24. The resolution asks the......
Elementary school students raise money for Down Syndrome organization
March 27th, 20150 DEARBORN — Students at Iris Becker Elementary School recently pooled their resources to raise $900 for the Down Syndrome Guild of Southeast Michigan. According to Paulette Duggins, the executive director of the DSGSM, the money will be used to send students with Down Syndrome to camp this summer. Down Syndrome is a set of physical...
ICA ranked in top 10 beautiful mosques by French magazine
March 27th, 20150 DEARBORN — The popular French news outlet Infotourisme ranked the Islamic Center of America (ICA) one of the world’s top 10 most beautiful mosques. The ICA was the only mosque in the United States to make the list. The institution was ranked number eight on the list, and is believed to be the largest mosque in North America.......
Head of Detroit FBI reads to Dearborn students
March 27th, 20150 DEARBORN — Paul Abbate, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Detroit Division, joined Samia Hamid Sareini, the Arab American Civil Rights League field director, on Monday, March 23, at William Ford Elementary School in Dearborn, where the two read to students as part of the National Reading month. Celebrities and public...
Second annual Autism Awareness event in Dearborn to be bluer and brighter
March 27th, 20150 DEARBORN — Blue Hands United of Dearborn is gearing up for its second annual lighting ceremony taking place at the Ford Community Arts Center on April 2. The objective of the organization, started in 2013 by local parents, is to spread autism awareness in the Arab American community and beyond. The latest studies indicate that......
