Azzam Elder, 39 Deputy County Executive Wayne County Detroit Biggest achievement: Managing the county’s end of notable projects such as Cobo Center and Detroit Region Aerotropolis, and re-engineering county government to maintain services with 40 percent less staff and without raising taxes. Current goal: To continue to attract the most creative and smartest minds that … Continued
Yesterday, representatives of more than three dozen Arab American and American Jewish community organizations met in Washington to make clear their shared commitment to a comprehensive Middle East peace. Hosted by J Street, which calls itself the US’s “pro-peace, pro-Israel lobby” and the Arab American Institute, “the research and policy arm of the Arab American … Continued
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) is delighted at President Obama signing into law the Department of Defense Authorization Conference Report, which included in the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act. The hate crimes provision will strengthen existing hate crimes protections for race, color, religion, national origin, and ethnicity. It also now … Continued
Just a few years ago, Syrian American Alia Malek was most known as a civil rights attorney in the US Department of Justice. However, with the release of her first book, “A Country Called Amreeka,” she has since claimed the new title of author. The recently published book offers a rich historical account of Arab … Continued
The country’s capital city Damascus may very well be the oldest continuously populated city in the world. At least it lays claim to that title. By pushing tourism, the Syrian government celebrates the country’s past while trying to improve its present, not just economically but politically. “One looks at tourism in this strategy as a … Continued
The British government has stressed the importance of Britain’s social and economic relationship with the Middle East. “Our bilateral relationship is built on Britain supporting the young people of the Middle East by investing in community sports programs to encourage young people to do more sport, remain active and lead healthy and happy lives,” Ivan … Continued
Bahrain’s elected lower house of parliament passed a bill Tuesday banning citizens from having any relations with Israelis, even as the government has called for increased contact with Israel. The bill will likely stall in the upper house of parliament, which is filled with government supporters. The measure was put forward by the conservative religious … Continued
Morocco has always had strong ties with Judaism. Soon after Arab rule began in Morocco at the end of the seventh century, there was an influx of Arab Jews into the country. Over time, relations between Morocco’s majority Muslim population and its small Jewish population have ranged from very good to strained. The King’s top … Continued
For the fourth year in a row, Iraqis top a growing roster of people seeking asylum in an industrialized nation. They are just ahead of people fleeing wars in Afghanistan and Somalia, said a report published by the U.N. refugee agency Wednesday. The refugee agency said 13,200 Iraqis applied for asylum. An additional 12,000 claims … Continued
Palestinians in the West Bank town of Hebron have sewn what they believe is the world’s largest embroidered dress. About 150 women helped make the dress, which is 32.6m (107ft) long and 18.1m (59.4ft) wide, organisers said. It is hoped that the dress will secure a place in the Guinness Book of World records and … Continued
Beirut’s Saifi Market on Sunday was filled with the sounds of chopping, cheering and the sweet, grassy smell of tons of freshly cut parsley. Thousands of visitors showed up over the weekend to cheer on 250 sous chefs and 50 of their instructors from the Kafaat School of Catering as they toiled over two days … Continued
When we talk of ‘Arabic cuisine’, it is easy to think immediately about Lebanese cuisine, and just the regular mezze dishes such as hoummos, tabbouleh and vine leaves at that. However, there is much more to Arabic food than these staples, and Lamees Ibrahim’s cookbook shows us what culinary diversity there is in just one … Continued
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