March 12th, 20210BEIRUT — Growing resentment and outrage among the Lebanese led to eight days of protests this week, with protesters using burnt tires to block roadways across the country in anger over the nation's economic meltdown and political deadlock amid a pandemic lockdown.
The Lebanese army said on Wednesday it had started clearing...
August 18th, 20180DETROIT — The Detroit branch of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) has detained a Brighton-area father and business owner for the last two weeks.
Fanta Doumbia told The AANews that her father, Banny Doumbia, originally from Ivory Coast, West Africa, was detained at his regular check-in at ICE on Friday, Aug....
May 18th, 20180By Brandon Sapienza
NEW YORK — On Monday, May 14, the NY4Palestine Coalition and community leaders held a march from 72nd Street to 82nd Street along Fifth Avenue in the Bay Ridge neighborhood of Brooklyn in protest of President Trump’s decision to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem.
The move has been met with outrage...
May 18th, 20180DETROIT – On the 70th anniversary of what is considered the greatest catastrophe in Palestine, drones painted the sky with trails of smoke grenades and snipers perched on the Israeli side of the Gaza border pelleted thousands who were protesting against those responsible for the historic tragedy – the Nakba, in Arabic.
More than...
April 13th, 20180DEARBORN – On March 30, Land Day 2018, the Israeli army shot more than 1,000 protesters killing 17 of them, according to multiple reports.
On April 8, members of the Arab Student Union at the University of Michigan-Dearborn drew bodies outlined in chalk, with the names of the victims written inside them, on the sidewalk between the...
March 16th, 20180By Farah Harb
The Arab American News
DEARBORN – On the one month anniversary of the deadly school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., students in various high schools across the country walked out for 17 minutes to protest gun violence with placards and T-shirts that read #Enough.
The cold...
March 9th, 20180WASHINGTON D.C. — On March 4, hundreds chanted "Free, Free Palestine" as they marched from the north lawn of the White House to the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, where the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) held its annual policy conference.
AIPAC's website describes the conference as, "the largest gathering...
March 7th, 20180GAZA ― Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are planning a six-week-long tent city protest near the Israeli border starting on March 30 to demand Palestinian refugees be allowed to return to their homeland, what is now Israel, organizers said on Wednesday.
Such a demonstration, envisaging families camped out in the sensitive border area,...
January 1st, 20180DUBAI — Anti-government demonstrations continued for a fifth day in Iran on Monday, after 10 people were killed during the biggest protests since the pro-reform unrest of 2009.
Video posted on social media showed crowds of people, some chanting “Death to the dictator!”, walking through the streets.
The Fars news agency...
December 2nd, 20171ANN ARBOR — Students at the University of Michigan walked out of classrooms Wednesday morning in protest of the Ann Arbor campus's response to a request made by White nationalist Richard Spencer to speak there.
The student group "Stop Spencer" organized the walkout in response to the "failure of University of Michigan President Mark...
October 27th, 20170The Fordson High School football team caused an uproar after making headlines two weeks ago when a few of its junior varsity players were busted in an alleged hazing scandal that some students argue was a sexual assault.
The administration called it a “rogue hazing” incident and Superintendent Dr. Glenn Maleyko confirmed that it...
September 24th, 20170SOMERSET, N.J. ― National Football League players from the Baltimore Ravens and Jacksonville Jaguars knelt and linked arms during the pre-game national anthem on Sunday, hours after President Trump called on fans to boycott teams that do not discipline players who protest.
At the first game since Trump stepped up his criticism of...
September 14th, 20170
HAMTRAMCK – A crowd of about 200 people attended a protest and vigil in front of Hamtramck’s City Hall on Saturday, September 9. The event focused on denouncing all violence in Yemen, the internal and external wars that continue to cripple the nation’s population of more than 25 million.
Hamtramck is about 30 percent Yemenis...
August 23rd, 20170PHOENIX ― Police fired pepper spray to disperse protesters outside a rally by President Trump in Phoenix, Arizona, on Tuesday after being pelted with rocks and bottles, police said.
Police have not given an estimate of the number of protesters, but Arizona media said there were several thousand. Police did not say whether the pepper...
May 18th, 20170WEST BANK ― A Palestinian man was killed in the occupied West Bank on Thursday when an Israeli settler opened fire as protesters crowded around his car and pelted it with rocks, according to multiple accounts.
A Reuters photographer and other witnesses said hundreds of Palestinians had gathered near the city of Nablus to show...
May 5th, 20170ADEN — Tens of thousands of Yemenis protested in Aden on Thursday against President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi's discharging of the provincial governor and a cabinet minister widely praised for helping drive Houthis from the city in 2015.
The two men discharged, Aden provincial governor Aydaroos al-Zubaidi and cabinet member Hani bin...
April 2nd, 20170NEW YORK CITY — On a cold, snowy Sunday morning, more than 100 Arab Americans gathered outside the United Nations headquarters to protest the United States' support for Saudi Arabia, which they say is the culprit responsible for extreme devastation and famine in Yemen.
Dozens of Yemeni, Lebanese and Iraqi American demonstrators met...
