Category: CULTURE

Dearborn Blog Presents “We Are In This Together”

Dearborn Blog will be hosting live interviews from various personalities from all over the World discussing the human emotional and social resilience to the Corona Virus Pandemic. The first guest will be Mr. Hadi Eldebek from New York, tomorrow Saturday 3/21/2020 at 7:00PM Eastern Time. To watch log in to facebook.com/dearbornblog Here is an intro ...

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Kaia Rolle: handcuffed and Arrested in America by Barbara Nimri Aziz

Kaia Rolle, Handcuffed and Arrested at 6—How Many More, and for How Long is This America? I want to never forget this child, or the thousands of US law enforcement officers like those in this episode who daily commit crimes similar to that against Kaia. B. Nimri Aziz While fretting over refugee children in freezing ...

Dearborn Defies Winter Storm and Fills Auditorium to Hear Rashid Khalidi’s Lecture Titled 100 Years War on Palestine

Dearborn Defies Winter Storm and Fills Auditorium to Hear Rashid Khalidi's Lecture Titled 100 Years War on Palestine

On Thomas Edison, Technophobia, and Social Media Criticism

Source: On Thomas Edison, Technophobia, and Social Media Criticism February 10, 2020 I recently finished Edmund Morris’s epic new Thomas Edison biography. It took me a while to get used to his reverse chronology structure (he works backwards from Edison’s later years to his earlier years), but once I did, I found it riveting. One ...

Being a Democrat—Ugh by B. Nimri Aziz

It’s a rough time to be a Democrat. Notwithstanding the impotent Senate Minority. Not those ill-fated bills championed as victories by House Democrats only to be spurned by the upper chamber; not smug, elitist party fundraisers; not funding strategists and millionaire celebrity donors; not even bumbling Iowa Democratic party officials. I mean this forlorn orphaned ...

المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن – أين تقف الجالية العربية في ديربورن من تفشي المخدرات

المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن - أين تقف الجالية العربية في ديربورن من تفشي المخدرات

الهوسة العراقية … عرض مسرحي خشبته الأرض بقلم وائل المرعب

الهوسة العراقية أداء مدرسة يونيفرسال ليرنينج أكاديمي في مدينة وست لاند في ميشيجان https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJLBbLhiDTw&feature=youtu.be الهوسة العراقية   لعل من المؤسف والمحزن حقا أن الشعر الشعبي العراقي خاصة في منطقة وسط وجنوب العراق وعلى ضفتي نهر الفرات تحديدا , لم يحض بأهتمام كاف من قبل الدارسين ونقاد الأدب والباحثين في اللغات الدارجة والمهتمين بفولكلور الشعوب , ...

Don’t Miss History: Rashid Khalidi in Dearborn Speaking About The 100 Years War On Palestine

Rashid Khalidi, the renowned Arab American Scholar, and the person who occupies Edward Said's chair currently in Columbia University, will be visiting Dearborn on February 26, 2020 hosted by AlNadwa Free Thinking Society.  AlNadwa is hosting a lecture titled The Hundred Years' War On Palestine at the Arab American National Museum Auditorium at 6:30PM. Event ...

Muslimish Celebrates Darwin Day in Dearborn For the First Time

Dearborn is becoming a center for culture and arts with the dynamic diverse blooming of its population with second and third generation immigrants. For the first time in Dearborn, Muslimish, an organization based in New York, and has chapters in 12 cities, whose mission statement is "to create a safe, supportive, and open-minded environment for ...

The Most Beautiful Poem Composed into a Song in Arabic Music

That's not my opinion.  That is the opinion of Mohammed Abdel Wahab ... the Musician of the Generations ... one of the most prominent founders of Arabic Music and composers in its modern history, and singers from the 20th century. The song Abdel Wahab was speaking about is Shal (Scarf) ... sung by Fairouz, words ...

المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن – علي السندي يقدّم قصيدة رحلة في أفق الحسين

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المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن يقدم قراءة معاصرة لملحمة جلجامش السومرية للدكتور صبري مسلم حمادي

مقدمة السيدة حنان شرارة:ـ   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkPznvFi6M4   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvtV5XnE-38       Dearborn Blog Podcast for Apple devices: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/dearborn-open-mic Podcast for Android device:https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/dearborn-blog/dearborn-open-mic Open Mic Archive: Dearbornblog.com/openmic Follow us on Facebook: Facebook.com/dearbornblog Follow us on Twitter: Twitter.com/dearbornblog Follow us on Instagram: Instagram.com/dearbornblog Subscribe to our Youtube Chanel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCziFy4hrJjtVDILGnBJpcTQ Playlists: Arabic Videos from Dearborn Open Mic: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHbIXkD8v4aGXHRHhnpc67LvGUuCVzsCx English ...

Dearborn Open Mic – Ali Sobh Presents “Depression” for the first time

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Dearborn Open Mic – Michael Fawaz Recites Imagine

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المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن – الأستاذ زياد نصر في سلسلة الموسيقى والأديان – مقام حجاز

المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن - الأستاذ زياد نصر في سلسلة الموسيقى والأديان - مقام حجاز

Reflections on the Disconnected Life by Cal Newport

Reflections on the Disconnected Life November 25, 2019 Not long ago, an Australian media professor named Robert Hassan boarded the CGM CMA Rossini, a container ship, at a dock in Melbourne. He had arranged to stay on the ship for its five week passage to Singapore. He brought a handful of books, but no phone, ...

Have You Heard About Habibi House?

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المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن – الأستاذ زياد نصر – موسيقى الأديان حلقة 2 – فيروز غنّيت مكة

غنيت مكة قصيدة للشاعر اللبناني سعيد عقل، غنتها فيروز. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgXMIpj8E5E غنيتُ مكةَ أهلَها الصِّيدا والعيدُ يملأ أضلُعي عِيدا بيتٌ على بيت الهُدى زِيدا بنيانُه كالشَّهْب ممدودا أهلي هناك وطيِّبُ البِيدا أنْ ليس يبقى البابُ مَوصودا عيني السماءَ تفتحتْ جُودا شجوًا لكنتُ لشَجوِها عُودا بفِمي هُنا يا وُرقُ تغريدا بِيضًا - فلا فرقتَ - أو سُودا ...

المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن -موسيقى الأديان 1 – “مريم” زياد نصر وريتا يوسف وشعلان نصر ونوار العزاوي

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المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن – السفير د. علي عجمي يعرّب قصة العاشقة وبئر الماء والناي من التراث التركي

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Dearborn Open Mic – Powerful Performance! Reda Taleb Recites “Whose Daughter Are You?” [VIDEO]

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Dearborn Open Mic – Nour Jouni Recites “A Girl’s World”

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Dearborn Open Mic – Nour Maghrabi Presents Paintings and Hena Art

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Dearborn Open Mic – Ms. Henda Al-Biatty – Classroom At Home

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Dearborn Open Mic – Samer Sarhan Performs Crazy World

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Dearborn Open Mic – Raphique Barakat – Stand Up Comedy 8-21-19

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Dearborn Open Mic Featured Visual Artist – “Manifesting the Unseen” by Eman Hijazi

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Dr. Abbas Yousef Talks About “Closing the Arab American Generation Gap” at Dearborn Open Mic

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Dearborn Open Mic – Ali Sobh Performs “So Many Times” at Dearborn Open Mic

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حوارات من واقعنا – الهوية العربية و الهوية الإسلامية

الهوية الإسلامية والعربية - وسام شرف الدين: الهوية العربية هي إرادة ومهددة اليوم بالاضمحلال:ـ   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o33XsztDCu8     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDYYyWg1vc8 الهوية الإسلامية والعربية - الأستاذ حيدر التميمي: الهوية الإسلامية والهوية العربية في علاقة شراكة https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPKcWQrQU8Y   الهوية الإسلامية والعربية - الأستاذ عائد إسماعيل: ضرورة تصالح الهوية العربية الإسلامية مع الإنسانوية https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYPtSyYAjfk   الهوية الإسلامية والهوية العربية ...

الندوة للتفكير الحر- الأستاذ عون جابر يفتتح أمسية الندوة الأولى والسيدة زينب عساف تقدم شوقي بزيع

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pLR1TMDp1Q   الندوة للفكر الحر - الشاعرة زينب عساف تقدم الشاعر شوقي بزيع في أمسية ديربورن - تتمة https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drrjEG2ffHs   Sign up for Dearborn Open Mic: bit.ly/DearbornOpenMic Sponsor Dearborn Blog: dearbornblog.com/sponsors Thank you for our sponsors:

Dearborn Open Mic – Stand Up Comedy – Ali Chedid

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المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن – الدكتور ناصر الحجاج “اللسان العربي … هوية و أداة تواصل”

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​The Power of Our Human Voice, from Marconi to Woods Hole, MA. by B. Nimri Aziz July 12, 2019

Heard “Trader Joe’s” podcast yet? I don’t know who might listen to a 22-minute corporate ad. But, given how cool podcasts have become: hey, that sounds inviting. The idea is also an implicit endorsement for radio-- because that’s where podcasting originated. Yes. I don’t want to disenchant young progressives for whom podcasts are their go-to ...

Intimacies From An Awful War. “For Sama” by Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts, reviewed by BN Aziz

July 25, 2019 If you think you’ve seen enough of conflict, especially the war in Syria, you haven’t. From love of nation and loathing of military rule, from inchoate hope of redemption and improbable determination, indebted to lost friends and seeded in the birth of your child, comes an intimate demonstration of how war happens ...

المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن – الأستاذ علي أديب – نظرية المؤامرة في العقل العربي

الاستاذ علي أديب يتكلم حول نظرية المؤامرة في العقل العربي في المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن

​Abu Graib at Home in America. by B. Nimri Aziz July 4, 2019

“This is not what America is about” argues a reporter referring to revelations of misogynist, violent, racist behavior by employees of the U.S. Border Patrol ‘guarding’ migrants held in detention centers. Sorry Mr. Thompson (Propublica journalist who broke this story); THIS IS what America is about-- administrative abuse of vulnerable people, i.e. women, men and ...

Dearborn Open Mic – Ziyad Nasr Sings “I Yearn For My Mother’s Bread” by Mahmoud Darwish

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المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن 12 حزيران 2019م

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​ The Problem of Our Self-proclaimed Progressives by BNimri Aziz June 12/19

“You can’t fatten the pig on market day.” Quoting an Australian electoral strategist, Guardian journalist Gary Younge warns “You can’t go around producing anti-immigration mugs, pathologising Muslims and demonising asylum seekers for a decade and then expect a warm a reception for open borders in the few months before a referendum…. “Sooner or later, progressives ...

Dearborn Open Mic presents featured poet Yasmine Rukia [5 Videos]

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Arab Women at Work– Simone Fattal’ NY Exhibition. by B Nimri Aziz

Retrospective Exhibition of Simone Fatal-- MoMA PS1, NY Even in New York, it’s not often one has an opportunity to view a sculpture exhibit on the scale of Simone Fattal’s 50-year retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art PS 1. It’s a splendid assemblage of work—247 items— from a prolific artist generously distributed over spacious ...

Siham Jaafar:True to Self and Identity

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Imam Dr. Salie Achmat: Using Pedagogy to Edify, Rectify, Transform, Predict, and Serve

This lecture was given in the Muslimish conference in Dearborn in 2018. It was recently published on Muslimish Youtube channel. Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpbM9J1wsqA   Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGgk4ibipqI    

​On the Pleasures and Sorrows of Life Without Screens by Cal Newport

On the Pleasures and Sorrows of Life Without Screens June 1, 2019 Photo by Marketa. I recently received a message from a friend of mine, a young man named Mike. He told me that Digital Minimalism had changed his life. Naturally, I asked him to elaborate what he meant. In response, he listed the following ...