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Dearborn Blog is a space for the diverse voices of the great city of Dearborn to be heard. Dearborn is a city rooted in innovation, entrepreneurship, diversity, tolerance, and building the American Dream. Dearborn Blog aspires to capture that spirit.

Dearborn Open Mic – Rewa Zeinati recites Permanent Resident 4-17-2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ApdrOy4rxk   Rewa is the founder of Sukoon. Sukoon is an independent, online literary journal, publishing Arab-themed art and literature in English, by established and emerging artists, poets, and writers of short stories and personal essays.  Writers need not be Arab nor of Arab origin, but all writing must reflect the diversity and richness of the ...

المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن – الأستاذ نبيل الشعار: أبعاد الاغتراب الجغرافي و الاغتراب العقلي

كلمة السيد وسام شرف الدين في تقديم الأستاذ نبيل الشعار:ـ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdF9VRig_ps نص التقديم:ـ التمسّك بالهوية العربية – افتتاحية وسام شرف الدين للمنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن في الأول من أيّار الأستاذ نبيل الشعّار مهندس ولد في مدينة دمشق، و درَس كما درّس علوم اللغة العربية وعلم الكلام في مساجد دمشق و باحاتها، و درس الفلسفة وعلم ...

التمسّك بالهوية العربية – افتتاحية وسام شرف الدين للمنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن في الأول من أيّار

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdF9VRig_ps وحولت طرفي إلى المشرق ... فلم أر غير جبال الغيوم تحول على بدره المشرق ... كما اجتمعت حول نفسي الغموم فأسندت رأسي إلى مرفقي ... وقلت وقد غلبتني الهموم بربك أيتها الأنجم ... متى تضع الحرب أوزارها؟ كما يقتل الطير في الجنة ... ويقتنص الظبي في السَّبْسب كذلك يُجنى على أمتي ... بلا سبب ...

Assange or Khashoggi: Whither Journalistic Standards? by B. Nimri Aziz

April blog https://www.counterpunch.org/.../just-another-spring-in-progress/ May1, 2019 Assange or Khashoggi: Whither Journalistic Standards? by B. Nimri Aziz During the media frenzy, diplomatic flurry and widespread speculations around a hitherto marginal Saudi journalist’s apparently grizzly demise in Istanbul’s Saudi consulate last October, my thoughts stayed with the deathly silence that had fallen around Wikileaks’ founder and director. Information ...

Rima Zalghout Recites Sailor Moon in DOME 4-17-19

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOx4AmQgybA  

History of the National Arab American Heritage Month

Arab American Heritage Month (NAAHM) is in April and while not fully nationally recognized, about half of the United States accepts it. To be exact, there are 26 states and 105 proclamations and resolutions to date, and growing.   Officially started in 2017, Arab American Heritage Month made a grand entrance. Events of the day ...

Sara Raad Reads From Her Poetry in Dearborn Open Mic on 4-17-2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLqb5Xc_MII   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LtVWhTRUhk

Dearborn Open Mic – Rowaida Omar Reflecting Through Her Art

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uaJOQTjajo   https://www.instagram.com/p/BvIsSTPFMQT/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link   Instagram Profile: https://www.instagram.com/rowaidaomar/  

Dearborn Open Mic Opening Statements by Yasmine Badaoui and Wissam Charafeddine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TxtwiaEPVg   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IgpaOElJes

Podcast: Dearborn Open Mic English 4-17-19

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5XCU2KDujU

المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن يقدم يا جنات بلادي لزكي ناصيف أداء مجموعة من فناني ديربورن

المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن يقدم يا جنات بلادي لزكي ناصيف أداء مجموعة من فناني ديربورن https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxQayb597Cg

Just Another Spring in Progress? by BN Aziz

Spring Greetings, from BN Aziz April 22, 1019 My corner of New York’s Catskill Mountains is shortly due to explode in green. Today however, it’s brown, beige, russet and auburn:-- a wrapping of spindly trunks with naked branches cascading uphill draws my eyes to the horizon. I wait. My neighbors wait. Landscapers and gardeners wait. ...

Parisians Face The Flames and Tragedy with Singing

Parisians gather outside burning Notre Dame to sing hymns Hours after a blaze engulfed the roof of the centuries-old Notre Dame Cathedral, distraught Parisians and stunned tourists lined the banks of the Seine River, gazing in disbelief. Christians sang liturgical songs such as Hail Mary and Ave Maria, as the inferno raged at the cathedral. ...

المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن – الفرقة الموسيقية تقدم مهما يتجرح بلدنا للفنان زكي ناصيف

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVRcPyyJvD8   مهما يتجرح بلدنا منلمو ولو كنا قلال قلال ولكن ما تعودنا نبكي و نندب ع الأطلال أهل مروة هيك ربينا وبالعدة قلايل مش عجيبة لولا كبينا الكبوة للأصايل لا سهوتنا ولاصبوتنا بتصحينا من كبوتنا ما ألنا إلا مروتنا المروة بتخلق أبطال بلدنا غنى المحبة تصارت موالو صارت تنمى حبة حبة وتكبر مع أطفالو ...

Podcast Series: Arab American Identity with Dr. Hani Bawardi Eps. 4

In this episode, Wissam Charafeddine discusses with Dr. Hani Bawardi the First Arab Conference in Paris in 1913.

المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن – زكي ناصيف … رائد مجدد في الموسيقى العربية … إعداد ناصر الحاج و تقديم مجموعة من الفنانين ج1

علي السندي، عضو المركز العربي الأمريكي للثقافة و الفنون يقدم ناصر الحاج:ـ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvAuVSKbmBA   ناصر الحاج، رئيس اللجنة الموسيقية في المركز العربي الأمريكي للثقافة و الفنون:ـ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okQ_e6tJUXE المهندسة الفنانة سوسن ياسين:ـ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ6kMf_jSO8 المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن - زكي ناصيف رائد مجدد في الموسيقى العربية - إعداد و تقديم ناصر الحاج ج3:ـ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGnwd9VVsRc المنتدى الثقافي في ...

كامل بزي يقرأ عن الأم في الشعر و المثل العربي في المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن

مقدمة السيد علي السندي و تقديم الأستاذ كامل بزي:ـ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCsv2FQF9mc كامل بزي يقرأ عن الأم في الشعر و المثل العربي:ـ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SirTT2HLHTs  

Jama Alyad Provides High-Quality Posters for Palestinian Cause

Some projects involve a huge group and go on for months and years; some projects involve a few people with work turned around in days or even hours. All output from the collective is available in PDF form for non-commercial use. WEBSITE https://www.instagram.com/p/BvfwpXPhO25/ The idea for this collective has been around for many years, if ...

Diary of a Daughter in Diaspora

  In her first book, Founas outlines her life experiences and views through poetry. As the daughter of Algerian immigrants, she depicts the realities of growing up in America in the diaspora – leaving her between two foreign lands. She also provides a unique glimpse into the glories and traumas of educating black and brown ...

Cleaning Tips to Keep Your Home Clean

Bedroom: Morning: Make the bed Wipe your bedside table Night: Rehang clothes Put dirty clothes in the laundary basket Bathroom: Morning: Spray your shower with cleaner after each shower Hang towels on bards and robes on hooks Night: Keep a laundary basket in bathroom for towels Wipe bathroom counter and clear clutter Kitchen: Morning: Empty ...

Saving Aleppo’s seeds from the Syrian war

Arab Film Series: Wild Relatives ARAB FILM SERIES Wild Relatives 7 p.m. Thursday, April 18 at AANM PURCHASE TICKETS Following a transportation of seeds between the Arctic and Lebanon, Wild Relatives starts in 2012 when an international agricultural research center was forced to relocate from Aleppo to Lebanon due to the Syrian Revolution turned war. ...

Palestinian Youth Movement 2018 Review

WEBSITE Source: https://www.pymusa.com/2018-year-in-review/ Dear Friends and Family of the PYM,We hope this finds you in good health and spirits. We write to share with you some of the highlights of the work we’ve done in 2018, share what we have in store for 2019, and ask for your continued support as we start the new year. ...

Entrepreneur, Artist, Activist: Noura Ballout

Noura Ballout is an artist, curator, and entrepreneur. They work in a wide range of creative mediums, maintaining a primary practice in photography. Their work is about constructing and finding home while navigating an intersectional identity in diaspora, which often manifests in the meeting of art and community. Noura is the founder of Habibi House, ...

Zeyn Joukhadar is a Rising Star in Arab American Literature

Zeyn Joukhadar is the author of the novel The Map of Salt and Stars (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, May 2018), a member of the Radius of Arab American Writers (RAWI), and a member of American Mensa. His work has appeared in Salon, The Paris Review Daily, The Kenyon Review, The Saturday Evening Post, PANK Magazine, and elsewhere, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize ...

المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن – إباء إسماعيل تقرأ الشاعرة السورية فاديا غيبور

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdMJGeLqIzg   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lqGxfi_INg   Sponsors:

المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن يعد لإحياء ذكرى للفنان زكي ناصيف يوم الأربعاء المقبل

يقوم المركز العربي الأمريكي للثقافة و الفنون بإحياء ذكرى الفنان العربي زكي ناصيف على خشبة مسرح المتحف العربي الأمريكي و في لقائة الشهري المعتاد المسمى بالمنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن و إليكم البرنامج بالتفصيل:ـ  

ACCESS announces leadership transitions

Maha Freij promoted to Executive Director; Wisam Qasem Fakhoury promoted to Chief Financial Officer Dearborn, Mich. (March 25, 2019) – ACCESS’ CEO Hassan Jaber announced today that Maha Freij, previously the Deputy Executive Director & Chief Financial Officer, has been appointed to serve as Executive Director of the 48-year-old organization. Wisam Qasem Fakhoury, previously the ...

​2nd BOOK + PRINT FEST CELEBRATES CUTTING-EDGE LITERARY ARTS, CRAFTS AND AUTHORS OF COLOR

Event includes the official launch of new small press and arts collective, Maamoul Press Dearborn, Mich. (March 26, 2019) – Connecting communities to generate appreciation and understanding has long been a hallmark of the Arab American National Museum (AANM). Providing a programmatic platform that unites artists of color in a celebration of creativity and self-expression ...

Ep. 4 – The Diplomat with Dr. Ali Ajami

In a series of interviews, Ambassador Dr. Ali Ajami will be reflecting on his life journey as a teacher, a journalist, and a diplomat.  The interviews will explore history as witnessed by Ambassador Dr. Ali Ajami during his life time, and the various posts he occupied in his professional life. The interviews are conducted by ...

المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن يقدم أمسية شعرية مع قحطان المندوي 6 آذار 2019م

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFwZ738WBv0   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1_nw8Wmh7Y   To sponsor, go to dearbornblog.com/partner Sponsors of this post:

المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن – فيروزيات مع سوسن ياسين، زياد نصر، ناصر الحاج، وأسامة مصري زاده

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA1oKhyix4E   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJv54atBTyM   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh0gxHi6hz4   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6uJN4r4sS8   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGpP81V6hF8   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH-9kyUk9l8   Sponsors:

​ACCESS TO MARK 48 YEARS OF SERVICE AT MARCH 28 GALA IN DOWNTOWN DETROIT

Honorees include philanthropists Muna and Basem Hishmeh Michigan’s Gov. Whitmer, Dearborn’s Mayor O’Reilly among scheduled speakers Dearborn, Mich. (March 21, 2019) – Nearly 2,000 guests are expected to celebrate ACCESS—the nation’s largest Arab American community nonprofit organization—and its 48 years of service at its Annual Dinner at 6 p.m. Thursday, March 28, at the Detroit ...

Free walk-in admission at Arab American National Museum Celebrating Arab American Heritage Month

ARAB AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM CELEBRATES ARAB AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH Free walk-in admission, publication of new informational booklet, diverse programs set for April 2019 Dearborn, Mich. (March 18, 2019) – Since the first Arab immigrants arrived in the United States of America in the 1800s, they and their descendants have left an indelible mark on American ...

Ep. 3 – The Diplomat with Dr. Ali Ajami

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