January 7th, 20230U.S. Rep. Elissa Blair Slotkin (D- Holly) recently returned from a nine-day trip to the Middle East over Thanksgiving. The Congressional Delegation of House Veterans Affairs Committee members visited Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq and Lebanon. Slotkin had to miss the Lebanon portion of the trip due to President Biden’s visit to Bay City,...
December 6th, 20220Democrat Nabeela Syed is on cloud nine: In the midterm elections, the 23-year-old flipped a Republican-held district in Chicago’s northwestern suburbs, becoming not only one of the youngest members of the Illinois General Assembly, but also its first Muslim.
“It was wild for me to ever consider running for office at such a young...
December 6th, 20220WASHINGTON, D.C. - Alia Awadallah, an Arab American who has worked in international security, counterterrorism and U.S. policy in the Middle East, has been appointed by President Biden's administration to work as an advisor to the deputy undersecretary of the army.
The incoming political appointee made the announcement on Twitter Monday,...
May 17th, 20210DEARBORN — More than 10,000 local residents and activists gathered last weekend in protest of the latest Israeli ethnic cleansing campaigns in occupied territories of Palestine over the weekend.
The Israeli government has sanctioned tactics of attacks aimed at the dispossession of residents from their homes, recently targeting the...
May 22nd, 20200DEARBORN — A front-line nurse at Beaumont Hospital in Dearborn has shared her experience working at the prominent hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic in Wayne County. The region in which the hospital operates has been one of the worst hit in the state, with hospitals and their staff overwhelmed by cases of the virus, especially in...
January 10th, 20200DEARBORN HEIGHTS — Faith leaders from across Metro Detroit gathered Thursday in the Islamic House of Wisdom to call for calm in the face of escalating tensions between Iran and the United States following a drone attack that killed an Iranian general and a missile attack on an Iraqi air base housing American troops. The Christian and...
March 29th, 20190DEARBORN — A "who's who" of national, state and local officials and leaders from the Arab American community joined nearly 700 supporters and friends at The Arab American News' 35th anniversary banquet at the Bint Jabeil Cultural Center this past Friday. They celebrated its achievements and looked forward to its future.
Attendees...
September 15th, 20180DETROIT—Comerica Park will holds its first-ever Arab American night on Saturday, Sept. 22 as the Detroit Tigers face the Kansas City Royals.
“To the best of our knowledge, it’s the first of its kind in all of baseball at least,” said Jim Cleary, a sales executive for the Tigers, who came up with the idea for the event in...
September 15th, 20170On September 7, 1984, The Arab American News was established to purely tell Arab Americans' and the Arab world's untold stories, but instantly developed into something more— an unexpected educational center for thousands to learn what they'd been denied access to elsewhere.
Our mission has been and will continue to be to provide a...
