Author Archives: Arab America

  On August 15, 2008 local Arab-American actors, actresses, and comedians will take the stage at the Ford Community and Performing Arts Center in an effort to humanize the Arab experience through comedy. The evening includes sketch comedy and short films, written, produced, directed, and performed by Arab-Americans. “As a community oriented company, we are … Continued

  Embracing culture and tradition, and thriving with family fun, the local Chaldean community is inviting the masses to once again share in its celebration during the annual Chaldean Festival. The event is set for Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 9-10, from 2 p.m. to 11 p.m. on the front lawn of the Southfield Municipal Complex. … Continued

Dearborn based Palm Palace Restaurants, Inc., announced plans to open 5-8 Palm Palace Restaurants in Southeastern Michigan plus units in Ohio and Chicago with the first to open on Wednesday, July 30 at 15570 Hall Road, Clinton Township, just west of the Lakeside Mall. The new restaurants will feature a Mediterranean cuisine with a variety … Continued

Youssef Chahine, the celebrated Arab filmmaker, has died, aged 82, in Cairo. After undergoing surgery in a Paris hospital on July 17 for a brain haemorrhage, Chahine slipped into a coma for several weeks, before returning to Cairo earlier this month. He was being treated in the Maadi military hospital in south Cairo when he … Continued

  Arab Detroit hosts the fifth annual educational workshop, “Images and Perceptions of Arab Americans: Arabophobia in America: Myth or Realty” Arabophobia has been a part of Western culture since the Crusades. For centuries, the Arab has played the role of the greedy oil rich sheik, the villain or the seducer of women, hustler and … Continued

    Today the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) sent a letter to Republican South Carolina state senator Kevin L. Bryant. ADC, the nation’s largest civil rights organization working on behalf of the Arab-American community, relayed its extreme disappointment after Bryant posted a picture on his blog of a t-shirt juxtaposing an image of Osama Bin … Continued

Ads promoting Islam are to be placed on New York subway cars in September, but a U.S. congressman finds people sponsoring the messages unacceptable. Siraj Wahhaj is imam of a Brooklyn mosque and a backer of pro-Islam ads on New York subway cars. Siraj Wahhaj is imam of a Brooklyn mosque and a backer of … Continued

The Dearborn-Ann Arbor corridor has emerged as a strong contender for the new Southeast Michigan headquarters for K-Dow Petrochemicals — and its 800 jobs. And the Dearborn area’s large Middle Eastern population is one of the reasons. K-Dow is a joint venture of Midland-based Dow Chemical Co. (NYSE: DOW) and Petrochemical Industries Co., a subsidiary … Continued

On Friday, July 11, 2008, a resident of Arlington, Virginia, was sentenced to two concurrent one year prison terms for threatening my life and using hate-filled threats to violate my civil rights and those of my staff at the Arab American Institute. Upon release, he will be under supervised probation for three more years and … Continued

  Dr. Michael DeBakey, the world-famous cardiovascular surgeon who pioneered such now-common procedures as bypass surgery and invented a host of devices to help heart patients, died Friday night at The Methodist Hospital in Houston, officials announced. He was 99. DeBakey died from “natural causes,” according to a written statement issued early Saturday by spokesmen … Continued

The vacant La Shish restaurants around metro Detroit will have a new tenant this summer. Advertisement Palm Palace will open first at the extravagant former flagship Middle Eastern restaurant on Hall Road in Clinton Township. Later, the Auburn Hills location on North Squirrel Road near University Drive will get the new moniker. In total, there … Continued

  These Christian Palestinians say they are among the dispossessed, yearning for a nation to call theirs. Leaders of Christian denominations around the world say they fear these Palestinians may disappear from the Holy Land forever. Several thousand Christian Palestinians, members of the American Federation of Ramallah Palestine, are gathering at the Hyatt Regency for … Continued