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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.

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, ...

Photo Dr. Ali Ajami

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. ...

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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 ...

Fatimah Alhussieni Participates in Dearborn Open Mic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_NLLVFf1PE   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ICTeX36mt0&t=4s

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    

Nabil Hammoud Recites for Jerusalem in Dearborn Open Mic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2nJffIYiLk

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If You Know by Wissam Charafeddine in Dearborn Open Mic

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK_Bv6nvDzs

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 ...

Ahmed Al-Ansari Discusses His PhD Dissertation about Iraqi Identity in Dearborn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFiQZfFEzXA   A full lecture by Ahmed Al-Ansari is coming soon to Dearborn Open Mic.  

ART INSTALLATION ASKS VIEWERS TO HELP REVIVE UNIVERSITY OF BAGHDAD FINE ARTS LIBRARY

Iraqi American artist transforms grief over cultural loss into a call to action Concurrent presentations in Dearborn, Mich. and Taiwan Dearborn, Mich. (Nov. 16, 2017) – During the invasion of Iraq by a U.S.-led coalition in 2003, the College of Fine Arts at the University of Baghdad lost its entire library to looters who set ...

Ali Elsendy Presents Two New Poems in Dearborn Open Mic

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVPBTPZSyok   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGbAQZlA1Ow

Yasmine Badaoui: Notorious RBG at Dearborn Open Mic

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjPGkaQt-h8

Dr. Ali Ajami Recites “Adhin Bilal” Poem in Dearborn Open Mic

السفير الدكتور علي عجمي يلقي قصيدة "أذّن بلال" في المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch-sx9f9OCU  

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Be Like A tree by Wissam Charafeddine

Be like a tree, a poem recited in Arab by Wissam Charafeddine in the Dearborn Open Mic about being like a tree in its peace and giving. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXRraNdHyfM  

Serving Time At Gas Station – Part 1

Did you serve your time? That is the nick name given to working in a gas station when you first immigrate to Dearborn or first start looking for a  job as a young Arab American. Although Gas Station Attendant is rated as one of the most dangerous jobs in America, Arab Americans, in Michigan specially, ...

HOT Syrian music artists @AANM in October

Greetings! I hope this finds you well. The Arab American National Museum (AANM) is pleased to welcome leading Syrian American performers for concerts on Friday, Oct. 20 and Monday, Oct. 23. Below you’ll find a press release for the Oct. 20 Global Fridays appearance by Hello Psychaleppo; attached are photo of the artist, whose given ...

Inside by Wissam Charafeddine in Dearborn Open Mic

We would like to remind you of Dearborn Open Mic taking place tomorrow Wednesday 10/4/2017 at 7PM to 9PM in the Arab American Museum (first Wednesday of each month). One of the contribution in the last Dearborn Open Mic was a poem by Wissam Charafeddine about meditation, happiness, and peace titled "Inside": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qL1CxnRnYA