ACCESS May 2025 Update
Dear friends, I hope you have been enjoying this Spring season of renewal despite these unsettling times. Please allow me to share some updates from the month of May with you. May is recognized nationally as Mental Health Awareness Month and our Community Health & Research Center participated in numerous activities, which included presentations at ...
Fresh, local, and full of flavor — Vara Juice expands its menu with seven brand-new, unforgettable Turkish Milk Cake creations
June 1, 2025 — Vara Juice, known for its fresh, locally sourced ingredients and bold Middle Eastern-inspired flavors, is shaking up the smoothie scene once again. Starting June 1, 2025, all Vara Juice locations will introduce a new product line featuring seven different Turkish Milk Cake desserts. The Turkish Milk Cake line includes: ● Dubai ...
Over 600 days of GENOCIDE: Action Is Our Only Option
Urgent Updates On The Genocide In Gaza You Are Invited Dear Wissam Please join this important webinar on the Genocide in Gaza Sunday June, 1st at 12 PM EST Register to attend here. https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aUUzycRDSwaem750Nc6iFg Over 600 Days into the Genocide in Gaza – Action is Our Only Option To End The Genocide In Palestine. The ...
The Border and the Bars: A True American Nightmare
A dynamic Arab American Activist, Author, Entrepreneur, Educator, and Engineer. With a Master’s in Software Engineering, bridges the worlds of technology, education, and community leadership. A founder of numerous nonprofit initiatives and a dedicated scholar of Islamic Studies, Arab identity, and history, Wissam brings deep insight and bold ideas to every space he enters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zy7qu15xVc ...
Ravens Day 2025 Showed Up and Showed Out
Ravens Day 2025 Showed Up and Showed Out💚🤍💚🤍 Ravens Day at Riverside Middle School was everything it needed to be—fun, loud, full of smiles, and powered by community. Hosted by the Amity Jr. Club, this year’s event brought families together for face painting, photo booths, cheering, and nonstop energy. Thank you to advisors Mrs. Rita ...
From Stigma to Strength: Navigating Divorced Identity as Arab American Muslim Woman and Political Arena – Micho Assi
As a divorced, single mother and immigrant, I'll share my personal journey of navigating the challenges of feeling 'not enough' in multiple roles - not enough American in some spaces , not enough as a woman in other spaces , not enough as a divorced parent. Yet, through pain and struggle, I've transformed these feelings ...
New Updates: Executive Orders and the Impact to our Communities
We are writing this weekly email to summarize several key developments that are impacting our communities. Our team continues to monitor and provide regular updates on a range of federal policy changes on our website. This was a busy week that was dominated by the House passage of the budget reconciliation bill and courts weighing ...
Manifesto of Elias Rodriguez
Manifesto of Elias Rodriguez, who killed two employees of the Israeli Embassy. If you think this will upset you, please do not read it. ========================ExplicationMay 20, 2025Halintar is a word that means something like thunder or lightning. In the wake of an act people look for a text to fix its meaning, so here's an ...
PRO PALESTINE EVENTS COMING UP
JVP envisions a world where all people — from the U.S. to Palestine — live in freedom, justice, equality, and dignity. ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ...
Reminder: Arab Film Festival May 7-11!!; Passes & Individual Tickets Available!
Greetings friends, This is your friendly reminder that the Arab American National Museum's (AANM) 20th Arab Film Festival is happening this week; May 7-11!! Individual tickets for each screening + passes are available throughout the festival. While many of our screenings will take place at AANM, we are excited to bring screenings to Detroit, Flint ...
The Green Party Declares a Global Environmental and Peace Emergency!
The Green Party Declares a Global Environmental and Peace Emergency! Read by Patricia C. Vener (The Declaration was adopted by the Green Party of the United States National Committee by a majority vote of 38 States/Caucuses. It was introduced by the Green Party Peace Action Committee (GPAX) and endorsed by five state parties, the Green ...
Mark Your Calendars: Crestwood’s Second Annual District Art Show – May 6, 2025!
🎨 Second Annual Crestwood District Art Show 🎨 Last year’s Art Show was an incredible success — a true celebration of creativity, featuring amazing artwork from our talented K-12 students and families coming together to support their artists! You can check out images from last year’s event to see just how special it was. Don’t ...
Arab Family History Day Saturday 4/26
You don't want to miss this. National Society for Arab & Arab American Genealogy Presents Our 2nd Annual Arab Family History Day This Saturday Register Here April 26 8:00 AM PST 11:00 AM EST SPEAKERS Dr. Mahasin Saleh, Ph.D., MSW, FHEA, Associate Professor at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, is ...
Run for City Council: An Invitation from Dearborn Greens
Dear community leaders, changemakers, and advocates for justice, The Dearborn Greens are calling on bold, principled individuals like you to step forward and run for City Council in Dearborn and Dearborn Heights. At a time when many political parties have failed to represent our values, the Green Party remains unwavering in its commitment to peace, ...
New Inductee to Dearborn Blog Hall of Hero’s: Ibtihal Aboussad
We are proud to announce the latest addition to the Dearborn Blog Hall of Heroes—Ibtihal Aboussad. This recognition comes in light of her brave and powerful actions during a recent protest at Microsoft’s 50th anniversary celebration, where she made headlines for her passionate stand against the company’s involvement in military contracts with Israel.A Heroic Protest ...
Free Films About Palestine: Share the Stories with the World
Salam friends In light of the current events in Palestine, a large number of filmmakers have made their films about Palestine available online for free. In this post, we share with you links to films you can view and share to get our message out to the world: A collection of documentaries published by Al ...
PROTESTS TODAY and beyond for Palestine, Peace & Justice
Lands Day for Palestine Collections to support SW Detroiters 📍 Location: 5 Woodward Ave ⏰ Time: 1 pm (drop off donations—see below for request) 1:30 pm (protest begins) Since 1976, Land Day has been commemorated by Palestinians in Palestine and the diaspora to sustain the struggle for the right to remain and return to historic ...
The Dark Ages of America
There is a reason why many of us are lamenting our current state. Whether it is the war on Gaza, WB, and Lebanon, or the current ugly "State of the State." I came across this PBS documentary about Thomas Jefferson. I AM NOT sending this for any reason, except to compare and contrast where we ...
What’s An Oscar Worth? By B. Nimri Aziz
What’s An Oscar Worth? By B. Nimri Aziz It was costly for British actor Vanessa Redgrave beginning in the 1970s, forever pilloried for her crime of speaking out on an unspeakable subject. She refused to back down, calling her adversaries ‘Zionist hooligans’. Resolute in the face of a tenacious enmity, she retorted “I had to ...
Protest TODAY at WSU, Book Tour w/Rami Khouri, Upcoming Events,
Rally for Mahmoud Kahlil today at 2:30pm! TODAY, we are rallying against the detention and attempted deportation of Mahmoud Khalil at Wayne State University, Keast Commons! Join SDS, SJP, and many others this today, Wednesday 3/19 at 2:30 to protest the illegal detention and attempted deportation of Mahmoud Khalil. The student movement won’t tolerate attacks ...
March 15 film – 36 Seconds: Portrait of a Hate Crime + director talkback + Iftar
Greetings and Ramadan Kareem, The Arab American National Museum (AANM) and Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU) invite you to our next Cinema Nights at the Museum, which will take place Saturday, March 15, 2025. We are pleased to screen the powerful, sobering documentary, “36 Seconds: Portrait of a Hate Crime” directed by Tarek ...
الصالون الثقافي في ليفونيا يقدم: الهوية العربية في راهنها المتأزّم مع الدكتور وجيه قانصو
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5OfLs3CPXA Join & Follow Livonia Salon https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/dearbornblog/episodes/ep-e2up9k1
Dearborn Greens Post Election Gathering
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUKm2fFhiEg https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/dearbornblog/episodes/Dearborn-Greens-Post-Election-Gathering-e2uoa88
تاريخ الصراع العربي الإسرائيلي ٢٨: العرب الأميركيون و الإبادة الجماعية الصهيونية في فلسطين ولبنان؟
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfOQK7vVKBA https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/dearbornblog/episodes/ep-e2uo9ol
No Votes For Genocide Rally
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o11E_lURxhU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah9APwjmyfY https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/dearbornblog/episodes/Dearborn-Blog-Films-Present-Dearborn-Voting-Jill-Stein-2024-e2uo81o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwP4jd03ipo https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/dearbornblog/episodes/No-Votes-For-Genocide-Rally-Part-1-e2uo8db https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/dearbornblog/episodes/No-Votes-For-Genocide-Rally-Part-2-e2uo8lg
Hands Off the Middle east Rally August 5, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqqg6WRuR8Q https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/dearbornblog/episodes/Hands-Off-the-Middle-east-Rally-August-5--2024-e2uo7mf
الصراع العربي الإسرائيلي حلقة 26: الصراع العربي الإسرائيلي، إلى أين؟
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7epZ-rGRQdM https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dearbornblog/episodes/23-e2lr6ta https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/dearbornblog/episodes/26-e2uo7h6
Gaza Relief Dinner – Doctors Against Genocide – Dearborn May 18 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BczaSTsvfks https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/dearbornblog/episodes/Gaza-Relief-Dinner---Doctors-Against-Genocide---Dearborn-May-18-2024-e2uo776
ILAN PAPPE IN DEARBORN: Gaza in Context: Past, Present, and Future
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gikX6i_OuLU https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/dearbornblog/episodes/ILAN-PAPPE-IN-DEARBORN-Gaza-in-Context-Past--Present--and-Future-e2uo6u8
AlNadwa Freethinking Society Presents: Liberation is Our Word
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebjUWZpaD04 https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/dearbornblog/episodes/AlNadwa-Freethinking-Society-Presents-Liberation-is-Our-Word-e2uo6od
Watch This Banned Documentary In Israel for Free
! Watch The Bibi Files for FREE between January 30 - February 10, 2025 Courtesy of J Street! Dear Nabil, Thank you for registering for the exclusive Q&A event of The Bibi Files with filmmaker Alexis Bloom, presented by J Street! We recommend watching the movie before the Q&A. You'll get a chance to watch ...
A Federal Worker Speaks Out: The Reality Behind Public Service
Dr. Stockton wrote: One of my memorable students wrote these thoughts about being a federal worker. She gave me permission to share it. My Perspective as a Federal Worker Over the last two weeks, nearly every day, the two million of us in the federal government have received email after email from the Administration degrading ...
Tell TikTok: Don’t Sell Out!
Learn more about our China is Not Our Enemy campaign here! Check out our Palestine campaigns here!
Support Palestine & Justice this week, MLK DAY events
TODAY @ NOON Detroit Police Union Bldg 1938 E. Jefferson, Detroit Saturday, Jan. 18 • 12-2 pm Black Lives Matter Detroit, Michigan Coalition for Human Rights, and General Strike U.S. (Detroit/Downriver) Chapter invite you to protest at the Detroit Police Union Building (1938 East Jefferson St, Detroit to bring attention to the bloated Detroit Police ...
Arab America Foundation Responds to DOJ Settlement with DoubleTree Hilton Orlando at Seaworld
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Washington DC, January 17, 2025–The Arab America Foundation (AAF) welcomes the Justice Department’s announcement yesterday regarding its investigation and subsequent settlement with AWH Orlando Property LLC, the owner of the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Orlando at SeaWorld. The settlement follows allegations of discriminatory practices that led to the last-minute cancellation of the ...
Nomination of Kassem Istanbouli for the Position of Lebanese Minister of Culture
Nomination of Kassem Istanbouli for the Position of Lebanese Minister of Culture A group of intellectuals and activists has launched a call to nominate the founder of the Lebanese National Theater, actor and director Kassem Istanbouli, for the position of Minister of Culture in Lebanon’s upcoming government. Istanbouli is currently working on rehabilitating the historic ...
Dearborn Blog Archives: Demonstration for Palestine in Dearborn on April 2002
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CFI’s New ‘RFK Jr. Watch’; a Secular Celebrant Bill in Michigan; Tales of the CFIIG Paranormal Challenge; and more
Cause & Effect is the biweekly newsletter of the Center for Inquiry, covering a wide range of work that you help make possible. 'Spotlighting RFK Jr.’s Anti-Science Healthcare Views' CFI's Quackwatch highlights Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s anti-science views; OPP urges support for Michigan's ‘Civil Celebrant’ bill; updated Generations Skeptics website; and more Cause & Effect ...
Luigi’s Manifesto
Exclusive: Luigi's ManifestoRead the manifesto the media refused to publishKen KlippensteinDec 10, 2024 I’ve obtained a copy of suspected killer Luigi Mangione’s manifesto — the real one, not the forgery circulating online. Major media outlets are also in possession of the document but have refused to publish it and not even articulated a reason why. ...
Nothing like Comedy for the Holidays
Nothing like Comedy for the Holidays The holiday season calls for lightheartedness, connection, and a chance to unwind. French comedy has long been a staple of the country’s cinematic tradition, offering not just laughs but a deeper exploration of human emotions and social complexities. This season, as part of our Comedies for the Holidays programming, ...
Pain, Perseverance and Prizes Dec 10, 2024 by Barbara Nimri Aziz
Arab writers have a tough job these days. Here, I’m talking only about those of us in the US. (Although this affects us all.) Whether poets, journalists, novelists or comedians, we have an extra responsibility to record our pain, unite our fractured people, and celebrate our existence and endurance. We must continue to celebrate while ...
Let’s go! By Dr. Jill Stein Nov 27, 2024
As we power up for the next phase of this movement, I want to send you my deepest heartfelt gratitude. For you are a paragon of courage, the unstoppable force we need for an America and a world that works for all of us! Together we have changed history, and our work has only begun. Despite ...
