Comerica Bank and the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services partnered to provide toys and school supplies to students at Salina Elementary in Dearborn on Friday, December 17, 2010. More than 900 students aged preschool through fifth grade shared in the holiday spirit as a bilingual Santa Claus presented them with board games, … Continued
Back in the early 1990’s, at the end of Lebanon’s civil war, together with a few other Arab American organizations, we requested and secured a meeting with then Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell to discuss both the situation in Lebanon and some unhelpful positions taken by the Senate that we felt might adversely impact the … Continued
The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that the 2010 Census showed the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2010, was 308,745,538. The resident population represented an increase of 9.7 percent over the 2000 U.S. resident population of 281,421,906. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, Acting Commerce Deputy Secretary Rebecca Blank and Census Bureau Director … Continued
Visiting Chairman of Kuwait Journalists Association Ahmad Bahbahani affirmed yesterday paramount significance of meetings of the Arab Journalists General Union currently hosted by the Sultanate of Oman. Bahbahani, a leading member of the Kuwaiti delegation at the meetings, said in a statement that the Kuwaiti federation had always taken part in such meetings since transfer … Continued
Ypres and Palestine, the Jewish Holocaust and Iraqi Kurdistan. Spot the connection? As a schoolboy, Belgian author Erwin Mortier and his friends would play in the fields near his home on the old First World War Western Front. One day, Erwin and his best chum heaved from the earth two helmets, one with a bullet … Continued
As one the most conflict-ridden regions in the world, the Middle East has it’s fair share of political problems. In fact, whenever the issue of environmental dangers are highlight many people will shrug their shoulders and say ‘we have more important problems to worry about’. What this attitude fails to recognise is one thing: regional … Continued
The talk of Helen Thomas’ alleged anti-Semitism has often been marked by an unforgivable sloppiness. Contrary to what people have said about her statements, she has criticized “Zionists,” not the Jewish people. The charge of anti-Semitism is of course deeply serious. Indeed, the “Jewish Question” — agonized over by the likes of Bruno Bauer, Karl … Continued
The United States Palestinian Community Network (USPCN) strongly condemns and denounces the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s political repression of 19 anti-war, Palestine solidarity and Palestinian activists. The USPCN calls for the immediate suspension of the federal government’s grand jury prosecution of these activists, and an end to the FBI’s harassment of our communities. Since September … Continued
Press Release issued by the Palestine Cultural Office-Michigan: The Palestine Cultural Office-Michigan has issued the statement below regarding Helen Thomas’ defamation and her accusation of anti-Semitism by the ADL and other Zionist and pro-Zionist supporters leading Wayne State University to withdraw Helen Thomas’ name from the Helen Thomas Spirit of Diversity in the Media Award. … Continued
DISH Network L.L.C., the leader in international programming, today announced its DISH World IPTV service now offers access to the largest Arabic channel lineup in the U.S. DISH World IPTV, introduced earlier this fall, distributes DISH Network’s international programming via broadband to the television without the need for a satellite dish. For consumers who live … Continued
From Egypt to Saudi Arabia to Jordan, huge audiences turn out to laugh at American comedians and at themselves. American-style stand-up comedy, it turns out, is a new funny business in the Middle East. “I went over to do a show and it turned into comedy missionary work,” says Dean Obeidallah, now the king of … Continued
During the Arab American Student Union protest at Wayne State on Dec. 10, Matthew Seeger, interim dean of the College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts, was spotted walking along the Reuther Mall in front of the Faculty/Administration Building – the very place the demonstration was taking place. Although Seeger has been named by sources … Continued
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