Category: CULTURE
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 ...
Dearborn Open Mic – Zaina Berri and Zach Jawhar Perform a Preview of “New Skin”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrGgsfYMdd4
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 – Yasmine Rukia opens up DOME 6-19-19 – Juneteenth & “Won’t You Celebrate with Me”
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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
Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cQBMAoNbeQ Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTnIiYJNwUs
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 ...
Mariam Jalloul talks Harvard Homecoming, Lattes & her Dearborn Accent | Dearborn Girl Podcast – S1E1
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The Documentary That Every Arab Should Watch … The Great Arab Revolt
Part 1: 1908 - 1916 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQM2qmogA3k Part 2: 1916 - 1917 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5v1q3DZ8wI Part 3: 1917-1920 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj4YLjHBdpw For more information on the Ottoman Empire: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/ottoman-empire
المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن – قصيدة في شهر رمضان للشاعر محمد فرحات – 2019م
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Dearborn Open Mic Featured Artist – “You have my heart” Motherhood Sketches Series by Nada Hassan
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14th ARAB FILM FESTIVAL EXAMINES HOME, COMMUNITY, DIASPORA
Cannes, Sundance festival winners among the lineup Detroit teen in the cast of film making Michigan premiere Dearborn, Mich. (May 23, 2019) – Films earning acclaim on the international festival circuit are among those featured at the Arab American National Museum’s (AANM) 14th Arab Film Festival (AFF), June 7-16, 2019, with screenings at the Dearborn ...
Novelist Mark Haddon Quit Twitter. Not Because It’s Terrible, But Because It Prevents Him From Being Great by Cal Newport
Source: Novelist Mark Haddon Quit Twitter. Not Because It’s Terrible, But Because It Prevents Him From Being Great May 18, 2019 Photo by Luis Marina. Last week, the British novelist Mark Haddon wrote an essay for the Financial Times about his recent decision to take a break from Twitter. What I liked about this piece ...
A Novel We Can All Relate To–The Other Americans, by Laila Lalami– by B Nimri Aziz. May 15, 2019
America is still discovering itself. The rise of Donald Trump alerted those citizens who held that they alone defined our culture and values to the existence of a significant population holding very different views-- and the will to back a candidate who might speak for them. (Thus, the most unlikely candidate entered the White House.) ...
Dearborn Open Mic – Rewa Zeinati recites “Belly” … Expectations from an Arab Woman
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Dearborn Open Mic – LaTerry Adulnoor Yaseen Recites Womanhood
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Dearborn Open Mic Presents Special Program of Poetry and Art for Mother’s Day this Wednesday
Dearborn Open Mic is brought to you by the Arab American Center for Culture and Arts and Dearborn Blog, and is sponsored by W Institute, W Design and Development, and Freethinking Society. Next program will be MC'ed by Rewa Zeinati, editor in chief and founder of Sukoon magazine, and one of the organizers of Dearborn ...
Freethinking Society Launches with Poet Shawky Bzeih’s Voice in Dearborn MI
حوارات، لقاءات وندوة شعرية مميزة للشاعر الكبير شوقي بزيع في المتحف العربي الأميركي، بإستضافة وتنظيم "الندوة" جمعية الفكر الحُر.ـ Freethinking Society من ”عناوين سريعة لوطن مقتول”.. مرورا ً ”بقمصان يوسف”وصولاً إلى: ”إلى أين تأخذني أيها الشعر”.. حمل الشاعر شوقي بزيع الريف والأنوثة ليسير بلوحة الجنوب اللبناني مجملاً كل الأمكنة، وتنقل بخبز المرقوق وبالمرأة الشرقية لينسج ...
المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن – الدكتور حسن بزي و أغاني المناسبات في التراث العربي … لبنان نموذجاً
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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 ...
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 ...
علي عجمي وهاني بواردي يستعرضان تاريخ العرب الأميركيين والحضارة العربية في جامعة ميشيغن-ديربورن
من زمن الفراعنة والفينيقيين وصولاً لسقوط الأندلس وحكم العثمانيين، تنّقل الدكتور السفير علي عجمي مع الزمان والمكان، حاملاً صوراً مجهولة ومطموسة عن تاريخ العرب تحت عنوان: «بُناة الحضارة». سلّط السفير الضوء على ماضي التنوير العربي معيداً بعث رماد كتب بغداد المحترقة من مياه دجلة. استعرض عجمي بمحاضرته التي ألقاها في جامعة ميشيغن-ديربورن (يو أف أم) ...
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. ...
Dearborn Open Mic English launches with a Big Bang
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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 فوق جبالنا للفنان زكي ناصيف 3 نيسان 2019م
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CfAjE1lg2s
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.
Is Social Media Undermining Religion? by Cal Newport
Source: Digital Minimalism and God (Or, is Social Media Undermining Religion?) April 9, 2019 Photo by Oliver Sjöström from Pexels Those who know Martin Luther King Jr.’s story well, know that January 27, 1956, was a pivotal date for the young minister. Only one month earlier, still a newcomer in town, King, to his surprise, ...
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 ...
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, ...
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
Digital Minimalism and Ancestral Health (Or, Would Grok Tweet?)
Source: Digital Minimalism and Ancestral Health (Or, Would Grok Tweet?) March 17, 2019 The ancestral health movement argues that over long periods of time, evolution adapts species to their environments. It follows that when it comes to human well-being, we should pay attention to how we ate and behaved throughout the vast majority of our ...
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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