Zajal by Mohamad Charara in Dearborn Open Mic
Zajal is a traditional Arabic form of oral strophic poetry declaimed in a colloquial dialect. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5I7vOYp6wQ
First Arabic Poetry Published Book in Japanese Haiku Style by Dearborn’s AlMisiafy AlRikabi (Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avXFg9U_2N8 Haiku is a very short form of Japanese poetry. It is typically characterized by three qualities: The essence of haiku is "cutting" (kiru).[1] This is often represented by the juxtaposition of two images or ideas and a kireji ("cutting word") between them,[2] a kind of verbal punctuation mark which signals the moment of separation and colours ...
Top 10 News From Dearborn Last Month
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Dearborn’s Ali Charafeddine Shares Success Mindset and Promotes Knowledge through Acez Top Ten Takeaways
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94W0F9T0PQ4 Ali Charafeddine is a young Arab-American Entrepreneur, currently a Senior Director of Banking at Quicken Loans, and the founder and CEO of Acez Media. Ali started his entrepreneurial career sponsoring events during his Highschool years (Fordson High School). He then grew a distribution business with his brothers into a $1.4 million company. He represents ...
Kamelya Youssef, the Authentic Arab American Ecopoet Activist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4biiuhbW6M “People usually comment that your name is also a flower or that you’re named after it or it after you.” With these words Kamelya Youssef once started her poem Xylem Kamelya Youssef is a Detroit-based poet, organizer, graduate student, and teacher. She is a member of the Z Collective and a board member of ...
Upcoming Screenings of Then They Came in Dearborn
https://vimeo.com/210002629 This award-winning film is about the internment of Japanese Americans during WW II, with free screenings in April in Dearborn and Ann Arbor. Please join us for Michigan Screenings of And Then They Came for Us Tuesday April 24, 2018 Dearborn Public Library 16301 Michigan Ave, Dearborn 7-9 pm Reserve your FREE tickets https://goo.gl/CYCg7r ...
Hadi Eldebek on Why Must Artists Be Poor? and Grantpa
https://www.ted.com/talks/hadi_eldebek_how_artists_contribute_to_the_economy_and_how_we_can_support_them?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare The arts bring meaning to our lives and spirit to our culture -- so why do we expect artists to struggle to make a living? Hadi Eldebek is working to create a society where artists are valued through an online platform that matches artists with grants and funding opportunities -- so they can focus ...
Adnan Beydoun: Our Cultural Forums Have Become Dancers For New Gods of Politics and Business
He was introduced by Ambassador Dr. Ali Ajami: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxJIsmR9IvU Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mVUkCufk80 Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmiHmEoPRv8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmiHmEoPRv8 Dearborn Open Mic takes place first Wednesday of every month at the Arab American National Museum. Follow us on all these platforms: Dearborn Open Mic Podcast for Apple devices: http://ift.tt/2p8w2gK Podcast for Android device: http://ift.tt/2DncbPd Blog: Dearbornblog.com Website: Dearbornblog.com/openmic ...
Professor Abdulelah Elsaigh Speaks About “Immigrant Pen” and Its Author in Dearborn Open Mic
البروفيسور عبد الإله الصائغ يتكلم حول أقلام مهجرية و كاتبه كامل بزي في المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن الدكتور علي عجمي يقدم الدكتور عبد الإله الصائغ:ـ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRho12npbs8 الدكتور البروفيسور عبد الإله الصائغ يعلق على كتاب أقلام مهجرية للكاتب كامل بزي:ـ الجزء الأول https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eESfd-P3nUI الجزء الثاني https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcngIZcXrdk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcngIZcXrdk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcngIZcXrdk
Mr. Kamil Bazzi Talks About The Journey of Writing His New Book “Immigrant Pens” in Dearborn Open Mic
الأستاذ كامل بزي يتحدث عن رحلة كتابة "أقلام مهجرية" في المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن قدم له السفير الدكتور علي عجمي:ـ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCKwEZceX4Q ألأستاذ كامل بزي يتكلم حول أقلام مهجرية:ـ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfDCHyO72Jg تابع:ـ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqzP9vk32zo
Dearborn Open Mic – Mr. Yousef Alqamoussi Reciting “Crazy” and “Hegdar”
Dearborn Open Mic is organized by Dearborn Blog and usually hosted by the Arab American Museum. We thank Adonis Restuarant for hosting this episode of the Dearborn Open Mic. Wissam Charafeddine, founder of Dearborn Open Mic and Dearborn Blog, introduced Yousef with the following: Yousef is the author of numerous collections of poetry, short stories, ...
MONK OF MOKHA VISITS ARAB MUSEUM MARCH 7
Yemeni coffee importer shares daring, miraculous journey Museum Store presents 1st Book + Print Festival April 6 April 12 book launch for Beydoun’s American Islamophobia Dearborn, Mich. (March 5, 2018) – In 2015, a California man named Mokhtar Alkhanshali made headlines when he undertook a journey to ancient farmlands in a country soon to ...
THIS WEEK: “God, Evil and Suffering” – Friday, March 9 at UFM
EVENT: Mini conference - "God, Evil and Suffering" DATE: Friday, March 9 TIME: 11:00 a.m.-3:45 p.m. LOCATION: 1030 CB Dr. Bruce Russell (Wayne State University) - "From Evil to Atheism via Inference to the Best Explanation" The problem of evil is the problem of how an all-knowing, all-powerful, wholly good God could allow the existence ...
Top 10 News From Dearborn Last Month
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Abdullah Hammoud Nominated For Progress Michigan’s 2017 Legislator of the Year!
Wissam, Want to share some BIG news with you - I have been nominated for Progress Michigan's 2017 Legislator of the Year! Together, we have taken bold and progressive stances on the issues impacting our communities. From spearheading the nation's largest immigrant civil rights package to standing up to corporate polluters, we are on the ...
MUSEUM’S 13th ARAB FILM FESTIVAL AMPLIFIES MARGINALIZED VOICES
Festival receives Knight Arts Challenge grant Dearborn, Mich. (Feb. 20, 2018) – The Arab Film Festival (AFF)returns to metro Detroit May 31 to June 10, 2018 as part of the regional Cinetopia Film Festival. Now in its 13th year, AFF will present films from the Arab World and Arab America in the genres of drama, ...
A Call to Preserve Arabic Language Among Arab Americans – Poem by Ambassador Dr. Ali Ajami
A Call to Preserve Arabic Language Among Arab Americans - Poem by Ambassador Dr. Ali Ajami in the Dearborn Open Mic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAM1zAC2R0w
Nisreen Faraj Criticizes Nationalism and Bragging Among Arab Americans
Through her poem, Like You And Me, recited in the Dearborn Open Mic, on Wednesday February 7, 2018, at the Arab American Museum, Nisreen criticized how each Arab nationality in Dearborn think they are better than the other Arab nationalities. Listen to her here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8kObmSEXjs Dearborn Open Mic is a platform for artists, ...
New Winter Storm Coming to Dearborn This Thursday 2/7/2018
Event:Winter Storm WatchAlert: ...HEAVY SNOW POSSIBLE LATE THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY... ...WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM LATE THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Heavy snow possible. Total snow accumulations of 5 to 9 inches are possible. * WHERE...Livingston, Oakland, Macomb, Washtenaw, Wayne, Lenawee and Monroe Counties. * WHEN...From late Thursday night through Friday evening. ...
Top 10 News From Dearborn Last Month
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Dearborn Open Mic: Wissam Charafeddine Recites My Healer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrUXE2IiGrY
Dearborn Industrial Generation, LLC Permit to Install No. 163-17 Approved
This email is to clarify the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality has taken two separate actions for the proposed permits for the Dearborn Industrial Generation, LLC (DIG) facility located at 2400 Miller Road, Dearborn, Michigan. The first, Permit to Install Application No. 56-17 for the new natural gas fired simple cycle turbine, was withdrawn ...
Dearborn Open Mic: Mohamad Hammoud Recites “The Yellow Flag”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU9gkEoXMAM
Dearborn Open Mic – Wissam Charafeddine – “Let Me Love You Few Years”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvguPYdXs5o
Fatimah Alhussieni Participates in Dearborn Open Mic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_NLLVFf1PE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ICTeX36mt0&t=4s
Killy Jones Recites “Can’t Be That, Why Do That” in Dearborn Open Mic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLBW45gjQDI
Nabil Hammoud Recites His Poem About Ahd Altamimi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcyHqSs1PFQ
Dearborn Timeline
June 12, 1928 – Voters in Dearborn, Fordson and part of Dearborn Township vote to consolidate into today’s City of Dearborn. January 9, 1929 – Clyde Ford elected as first mayor of Dearborn. 1929 – Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village opens. July 1, 1931 – Dearborn Inn opens as one of the first airport ...
Yasser Saad Recites His Poetry in Dearborn Open Mic (Video – Arabic)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5edphP_-TcE More from Yasser Saad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMdhXkRcGL8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzEta7P25EE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCRYIEIj00A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y04NdJiNJts
Sadeq AlAli Recites A Poem at DOM titled “An Old Woman in Her 20’s”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx4S_EkblnY
Nabil Hammoud Recites for Jerusalem in Dearborn Open Mic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2nJffIYiLk
Amer Zahr on House Hunters International – Jerusalem in DOM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx5U0Vi0Dog
Top 10 News From Dearborn Last Month
Here are the headlines that occupied Dearborn News last month:
Nadine Jawad, VP of UFM’s Central Student Government, meets with Arab American High School Student Government Members
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA7h5gPZBOs
Ibaa Ismael Participates with Short Poems in Arabic and English in DOM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMDKub80IAs
Shaif Alzaokari Recites in Dearborn Open Mic “Jabeen Wifaky”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT2qGF3FgJk
Nadia Hamdan Recites “Fiqh Ishky” in Dearborn Open Mic (Arabic – Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jSNKCp12SI
Amer Zahr Recites “Story About A Man Named Shafeek” in Dearborn Open Mic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJWlmdKXjXE
Dr. Ali Ajami Speaks About the Transfer of the US Embassy to Jerusalem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYZmFq71zso
If You Know by Wissam Charafeddine in Dearborn Open Mic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK_Bv6nvDzs
Shaif Alzaokari, Yemeni Poet at Dearborn Open Mic (Arabic – Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26350IMNRr8
Syrian Poet, Ibaa Ismael, Recites in Dearborn Open Mic the Pains of Syria
Ibaa Ismail is an Arab American poet and translator, member of The Arab Writers’ Union. She graduated from Tishreen University in Syria in 1985 with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature, and then completed Master in English and American Literature from Eastern Michigan University in 1995. She is a general moderator of Numerical Aroud ...
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