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Go topBY: Yara Jouzy/ Contributing Writer The occupied Palestinian city of Bethlehem opened its newest hotel this week called the “The Hotel With the Worst View in the World”. Plastered all over the walls of the hotel are works by famous British graffiti artist and pro-Palestine activist, Banksy. The walled off hotel is made up of … Continued
BY: Yara Jouzy/Contributing Writer A Palestinian identity isn’t complete without the political cartoon of a refugee child, Handala. In 1975, the famous Naji Al-Ali created this 10-year-old boy, who will remain at this age until the occupation of Palestine ends. He is an exceptional child, where the laws of nature and age are forbidden. Handala … Continued
BY: Adriana Murray/Contributing Writer While last week seemed to fly by with all the craziness from the election, the Washington, DC community mourned the loss of the beloved Arab American Professor Irfan Shahid of Georgetown University. Professor Shahid was born in Nazareth in 1926 when the city was still part of Palestine. However, he later … Continued
Photo: Courtesy of Arab American Institute (Twitter) BY Zane Ziebell/Contributing Writer The United States presidential election is scheduled for Tuesday, November 8th, 2016. This year’s election will be the 58th in U.S. history, and to some, the most important. Arab Americans, and all Americans, don’t wait until November 8th to cast your vote, head to … Continued
It’s Crain’s 25th anniversary of honoring 40 metro Detroit professionals who have made their marks before age 40. Bryan Zair is a Detroiter. The son of Chaldean immigrants from Iraq, Zair worked full time at his father’s convenience store in Detroit’s Brightmoor neighborhood while in college. He spent three years as an associate at Clark … Continued
It’s Crain’s 25th anniversary of honoring 40 metro Detroit professionals who have made their marks before age 40. There are business success stories, and then there is Dana Antoun. Hired at Rochester Hills-based WABCO Holdings Inc. as a project manager, Antoun has been promoted twice within her first year at the company for the unexpected … Continued
BY: Nisreen Eadeh/Staff Writer and Marissa Ovassapian/Contributing Writer The Obama Administration and the White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on Friday proposed the addition of a new ethnic category on the U.S. Census for people of Middle East and North African (MENA) descent. The category would include Arab Americans and anyone else with … Continued
Baladi Festival On the Golden Coast BY: Sami Asmar/Contributing Writer The romantic city of Santa Barbara on the beautiful California coast is a mecca for tourism as well as the home of one of the campuses of the University of California. Just like its older sister UCLA, UC Santa Barbara has a music department with … Continued
BY: Weam Namou/Ambassador Blogger Tina Ramirez is the president and founder of Hardwired, an organization that provides legal guidance for victims of religious oppression. Ramirez visited Michigan’s Chaldean Community Foundation on Thursday to discuss with leaders her upcoming trip to Iraq in mid-October. Among other things, she is trying to help pass a resolution that … Continued
Press Release: ACCESS Dearborn, Mich. – Tonight, Wednesday, September 28, ACCESS will host its 10th Annual Domestic Violence Awareness and Treatment Program Dinner. WHAT: The event will raise awareness about, and honor survivors of, domestic violence. Justice Richard Bernstein of the Michigan Supreme Court will serve as the keynote speaker during the evening’s program. WHO: Michigan Supreme Court … Continued
Press Release: Arab American National Museum Dearborn, Mich. (Sept. 27, 2016) – “…Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me…” -From the 1883 sonnet The New Colossus by American poet Emma Lazarus, mounted inside the Statue … Continued
Advance tickets go on sale Thursday, September 29. They will be available through Missiontix.com until midnight the day before the show. No Missiontix.com sales on the day of show. We always reserve a number of tickets to be sold at the theater starting one hour before the first show, even when advance tickets are … Continued
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