Nam, nehnu nastatyeh! (Yes, we can!)
GAZA CITY — This morning I walked to the Indian Ocean and made salt in defiance of the British occupation of India. This morning I marched in Selma, I stood down tanks in Tiananmen Square, and I helped tear down the Berlin Wall. This morning I became a Freedom Rider. The Freedom Riders of the 21st Century are sailing small boats into...Gitmo prisoners demand information from Canada
Two Guantanamo prisoners, a Mauritanian and an Algerian, who once lived for a short time in Montreal, are taking the RCMP and Canadian Security and Intelligence Agency (CSIS) to court to force them to provide details of interrogations. Mohamedou Ould Slahi and Ahcene Zemiri were interrogated at Guantanamo by agents of the RCMP and CSIS...
Haddad to lead Dearborn police
November 1st, 20080 DEARBORN — Dearborn Mayor Jack O'Reilly, Jr. on Tuesday announced the selection of a new police chief, Ronald Haddad, who is a retired deputy chief of the Detroit Police Department and a law enforcement professional of 34 years. Newly appointed Dearborn Police Chief Ronald Haddad TAAN file photo O'Reilly cited Haddad's...U.S. cutoff threat unlikely to save Iraq troop pact
WASHINGTON (IPS) — The threat by the George W. Bush administration last week to withdraw all economic and military support from the Iraqi government if it does not accept the U.S.-Iraq status of forces agreement has raised the stakes in the political-diplomatic struggle over the issue. An Iraqi woman speaks with U.S soldiers...Forgive us our debts
Federal Reserve headquarters Four cowboys wanted to play a game of poker, but they didn't have a deck of cards. A banker offered to lend them a deck of cards, on the condition that each bring back 14 cards, and they had to leave their horses as collateral. How many cowboys get their horses back? This oldest trick in the...
Republican ad raises eyebrows
November 1st, 20080 In the final days before the election, a TV ad being run by the Michigan Republican Party in support of Michigan Supreme Court Chief Justice Clifford Taylor, makes use of a dark image of a Middle Eastern male, associating a Dearborn man with terrorism. Michigan Supreme Court Chief Justice Cliff Taylor, who is being challanged this...
Newly anointed US citizens gear up to vote
November 1st, 20080 Waad Nakad, 21, of Livonia, took her oath of citizenship in August, but she doesn't feel any more American because of it. She's been in the US since age one, when her family came from Syria in 1988. Shadi Hajal, 35, of Canton, shows off his newfound American spirit after taking the oath of citizenship and registering to vote on...
Community members weigh in on election
November 1st, 20080 Thirty-nine year old Daad Katato, a Palestinian American political activist associated with American Muslims for Palestine, is voting for Cynthia McKinney in the upcoming election. Daad Katato Katato, of Troy, says "I'm thinking of voting for Cynthia McKinney because I feel the other two candidates are not fair to Arabs...Activists question surge in ICE raids
After a rash of immigration detainments on Sept. 23 and 24, a number of family members and community organizations have complained that the sudden surge of arrests has served to intimidate and preoccupy immigrant communities just before the election, making people less likely to vote. The arrests were made during scheduled appointments...
Woman fights city as foreclosure looms
November 1st, 20080 Maria Gavrau, a 61 year-old Romanian immigrant who's lived in her Dearborn home for 18 years, is facing foreclosure after a severe fall on the sidewalk outside her home in April left her injured, causing her to lose her job as a...
Rugby gains popularity in Dearborn
November 1st, 20080 DEARBORN — Since they're at a commuter college, the athletic programs at the University of Michigan-Dearborn have had a hard time finding success. Some sports such as hockey have had their share of good seasons, but consistency is hard to come by for many of the other sports. Just two years into their existence as a sport at UM-D,...Conference dispels stereotypes
DEARBORN — Arabophobia in America was the subject of Arab Detroit's annual workshop, "Images and Perceptions of Arab Americans," on Thursday, October 22, at the University of Michigan—Dearborn. The event, entitled "Arabophobia in the Media: Myth or Reality," hosted various media figures and included workshop sessions that focused...
City to suspend parking rules near election sites
November 1st, 20080 DEARBORN — The city will suspend enforcement of Public Service Day parking rules near polling sites on election day, Tuesday, Nov. 4, to allow voters to cast their ballots without worrying about the twice-a-month parking restrictions. Public Service Day parking rules will be enforced as normal that day on streets not near polling...HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL SCHEDULE: PLAYOFFS-WEEK 1
Dearborn High School (6-3, 4-2 Mega Red) Last week: Lost to Detroit Country Day, 42-37 Playoffs: at Walled Lake Western, Saturday at 7 p.m. Edsel Ford (8-1, 5-1 Mega Blue) Last week: Beat Dearborn Heights Crestwood, 53-7 Playoffs: vs. Wyandotte Roosevelt at home, Friday at 7 p.m. Fordson (9-0, 6-0 Mega Red) Last...Groundbreaking interfaith conference
PONTIAC — The first annual New Directions New Connections conference, which the Michigan Roundtable is co-sponsoring with the Catholic Youth Organization (CYO) will be held on Monday-Tuesday, Nov. 10-11, at the Marriott Pontiac Centerpoint and will feature Reuniting the Children of Abraham on Monday evening. While walk-ins will be......
Detroit Medical Center opens Dearborn site
October 31st, 20080 Dearborn — The Detroit Medical Center (DMC) has established a new Wellness Center at the Ford Community and Performing Arts Center in Dearborn. The DMC Wellness Center will offer a variety of health and wellness programs, physical therapy, athletic training and injury prevention programs. Wellness Programs include basic health...
Anthony fires up AAPAC crowd
October 26th, 20080 DEARBORN - The Arab American Political Action Committee (AAPAC) distributed its official election literature, energized its membership and presented public service awards at its annual banquet on Friday. Arab American Political Action Commitee awardees, elected officials and guests, including Rev. Wendell Anthony, head of the...Final Iraq agreement reveals farce
WASHINGTON (IPS) - The final draft of the U.S.-Iraq Status of Forces agreement on the U.S. military presence represents an even more crushing defeat for the policy of the George W. Bush administration than previously thought. An Iraqi girl watches as U.S soldiers search her family house in a village near Baquba in Diyala...Another Canadian held abroad
Canadian citizen Bashir Makhtal has been sitting in an Ethiopian jail for two years, having been arrested while fleeing Somalia during the fighting in that country. Kenya, to where he fled, turned him in to Ethiopia, where he was born. Family suspect that Ethiopia jailed him because his grandfather was a founder of the Ogaden......
Bush bio-pic good way to end regime
October 25th, 20080 Now playing. Rated PG-13. Written by Stanley Weiser. Directed by Oliver Stone. Starring Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Banks, Ellen Burstyn, James Cromwell, Richard Dreyfuss, Thandie Newton and Jeffrey Wright. Running time: 125 minutes. Lionsgate. It's probably not easy to be fair when making a movie about George W. Bush, but director...The rape of Palestine
"Hope Destroyed, Justice Denied: the Rape of Palestine," by William A. Cook, Netherlands, 2008 The cover of "Hope Destroyed, Justice Denied: the Rape of Palestine" tells a significant story on its own: from a Palestine of green dotted with a few Jewish settlements, mainly in the north, transiting through the UN partition plan......
ACC continues Detroit redevelopment
October 25th, 20080 DETROIT — The Arab American and Chaldean Council (ACC) has opened the doors to its newest building dedicated to culture and social services, part of an effort to rejuvenate a Seven Mile neighborhood. The new 13,000 square-foot Artisana and Adult Learning Center on Seven Mile Road near John R. Road in Detroit has opened its...
Fordson primed for state title run
October 25th, 20080 DEARBORN — Dearborn Fordson football fans have always been a prideful, some might say boastful group, but after surprisingly early exits in the playoffs the past few years, some of that enthusiasm appears to have waned. A few days ago I was chatting in an auto shop with a couple of former Fordson athletes, both wrestlers and one a......
