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McDonald’s is fueling its trucks in the United Arab Emirates with oil from its own vats. Dubai-based Neutral Fuels announced Sunday that it had reached a deal to convert used vegetable oil from McDonald’s outlets in the UAE into 100 percent biodiesel to power the fast food giant’s delivery trucks across the Gulf country. It … Continued

Freeze the frame. There were 29 kids involved through most of a school year, doing interviews and shooting videos and telling the stories of their lives, but freeze that one frame and you’ll capture the spirit of the whole project. The kids were from April Kincaid’s journalism class at McCollough-Unis School in Dearborn. Ninety percent … Continued

Earlier this year we watched with amazement as hundreds of thousands of Arabs charged into the streets of their cities demanding reform. The uprisings led to the departure of several leaders who had ruled for decades and also tested (and continue to test) several others. But what led to this outpouring is much the same … Continued

<center><object width=”400″ height=”300″><param name=”movie” value=”http://dearborn.patch.com:/swf/external_video_player.swf”></param><param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”></param><param name=”allowscriptaccess” value=”always”></param><param name=”flashvars” value=”flv_url=http://o3.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/patch/59b16a44477c96da3b812f2204795636/video.flv&video_url=http://dearborn.patch.com/articles/student-photo-exhibit-tells-post-911-arab-american-stories#video-6846672&publication_url=http://dearborn.patch.com&twitter_status=http://patch.com/A-jR0D~v-clgNV&auto_play=true&full_screen=true”><embed src=”http://dearborn.patch.com:/swf/external_video_player.swf” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true” flashvars=”flv_url=http://o3.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/patch/59b16a44477c96da3b812f2204795636/video.flv&video_url=http://dearborn.patch.com/articles/student-photo-exhibit-tells-post-911-arab-american-stories#video-6846672&publication_url=http://dearborn.patch.com&twitter_status=http://patch.com/A-jR0D~v-clgNV&auto_play=true&full_screen=true” width=”400″ height=”300″></embed></object></center> The first generation of post-9/11 Arab Americans is now old enough to begin recording its own history, and Dearborn middle school students are penning the first words. The Arab American National Museum opened its newest exhibition Saturday, … Continued

<center><object width=”400″ height=”300″><param name=”movie” value=”http://dearborn.patch.com:/swf/external_video_player.swf”></param><param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”></param><param name=”allowscriptaccess” value=”always”></param><param name=”flashvars” value=”flv_url=http://o3.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/patch/59b16a44477c96da3b812f2204795636/video.flv&video_url=http://dearborn.patch.com/articles/student-photo-exhibit-tells-post-911-arab-american-stories#video-6846672&publication_url=http://dearborn.patch.com&twitter_status=http://patch.com/A-jR0D~v-clgNV&auto_play=true&full_screen=true”><embed src=”http://dearborn.patch.com:/swf/external_video_player.swf” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true” flashvars=”flv_url=http://o3.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/patch/59b16a44477c96da3b812f2204795636/video.flv&video_url=http://dearborn.patch.com/articles/student-photo-exhibit-tells-post-911-arab-american-stories#video-6846672&publication_url=http://dearborn.patch.com&twitter_status=http://patch.com/A-jR0D~v-clgNV&auto_play=true&full_screen=true” width=”400″ height=”300″></embed></object></center> The first generation of post-9/11 Arab Americans is now old enough to begin recording its own history, and Dearborn middle school students are penning the first words. The Arab American National Museum opened its newest exhibition Saturday, … Continued

Take a small Fort Greene middle school with a turbulent history and declining enrollment and transform it into a competitive, world-class International Baccalaureate (IB) high school in Downtown Brooklyn. That’s the ambitious plan the city’s Panel for Educational Policy (PEP) approved last week for the city’s only Arabic-themed middle school, the Khalil Gibran International Academy … Continued

As the first Americans to grow up with no memory of life before Sept. 11, 2001, a group of middle school journalism students documented their lives this past school year for a project, The Living Textbook. This afternoon the group od McCollough-Unis School seventh graders, mostly Arab American, invites the public to share in their … Continued

Take a small Fort Greene middle school with a turbulent history and declining enrollment and transform it into a competitive, world-class International Baccalaureate (IB) high school in Downtown Brooklyn. That’s the ambitious plan the city’s Panel for Educational Policy (PEP) approved last week for the city’s only Arabic-themed middle school, the Khalil Gibran International Academy … Continued

Where else but Chicago can the cinematic tale of an Arab-American man’s post 9/11 struggle unfurl to a soundtrack of wailing blues and string instruments from the Middle East? The city “is really inviting to the immigrant community,” Egyptian-born actor Sayed Badreya said of his decision to direct his 35-minute feature here. “I fell in … Continued

At six foot five, with his shock of blonde hair shaved into a fat Mohawk and talking in a languid Georgian drawl, Omar Jarun looks like he was once part of an all-conquering college basketball team. But the 26-year-old American doesn’t play basketball. Or at least not well. “I played recreational basketball for one season,” … Continued

Photographer Rania Matar moved from Lebanon to the United States at the age of 20. More than two decades later, her experience as a teenager and young woman in both countries has inspired her to photograph more than 300 American and Middle Eastern girls in their bedrooms. The result, an exhibition called “A Girl and … Continued

Where else but Chicago can the cinematic tale of an Arab-American man’s post 9/11 struggle unfurl to a soundtrack of wailing blues and string instruments from the Middle East? The city “is really inviting to the immigrant community,” Egyptian-born actor Sayed Badreya said of his decision to direct his 35-minute feature here. “I fell in … Continued