Category: CULTURE
Podcast Series: Arab American Identity with Dr. Hani Bawardi Eps. 3
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Podcast Series: Arab American Identity with Dr. Hani Bawardi Eps. 2
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Ep. 2 – The Diplomat with Dr. Ali Ajami
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Welcome to Dearborn Blog. Dearborn Blog was launched in 2013 to be a platform for the authentic voices of the Dearborn/Dearborn Heights community. We talk about Dearborn’s citizens, culture, and community. We talk about Dearborn history. We talk about Dearborn business. We talk about Dearborn’s food, culture, events, tradition, and society. Let’s talk about the ...
المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن د. فائق الأسدي: الإدمان على المخدرات بين العائلة و المدرسة و المجتمع
مقدمة الدكتور حسن بزي:ـ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJakhRQKGSI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2joYNgjB_c8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER5PszAq5ck SPONSORS:
Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Comes to Dearborn via DOMA
The Dearborn Open Mic Arabic DOMA (المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن), presented by the Arab American Center for Culture and Arts, is dedicating their March's program to the Al-Mutanabbi Street reading. Mutanabbi Street (Arabic: شارع المتنبي) is located in Baghdad, Iraq, near the old quarter of Baghdad; at Al Rasheed Street. It is the historic center ...
المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن يقدم الشاعر علي السندي في عيد الحب
تقديم الدكتور حسن بزي للشاعر علي السندي:ـ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DBOFjm9hGU قصيدة حب و شعر:ـ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcKysWr8pv4 قصيدة حظ عراقي:ـ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FULjvILqJM
Podcast Series: Arab American Identity with Dr. Hani Bawardi Eps. 1
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المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن: وسام شرف الدين يقرأ ميسون السويدان
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2MeSVV96ms لا ناس حولي إذما كنتَ في النّاسِ لا صوت إلاّك محبوسٌ بأنفاسِ و لست أدري أيأسي جاءَ من أملي أم جائني أملي من شدّة اليآسِ هكذا افتتحت ميسون السويدان قصيدتها "لا ناس حولي". تنحدر ميسون السويدان من أصول كويتية وهي إبنه الشيخ و الداعية المشهور و الدكتور في هندسة البترول طارق السويدان، و هو ...
المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن – محمد حسين هاشم: تجربتي مع العمل الشبابي في الجالية
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ciryUOl4uI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w2X4C_l99w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzCytEeHA5A
ARAB AMERICAN MUSEUM EXPLORES CONCEPTS OF “HOME” IN WINTER/SPRING SEASON
Current exhibition The Far Shore inspires exploration of diaspora and displacement via music, film, visual art, dialogue Palestinian band 47SOUL stops in Dearborn on its first North American tour Dearborn, Mich. (Jan. 31, 2019) – A home is much more than just a building to live in. It’s the land of one’s birth; a newly ...
The Phrase of Doom
There is a phrase often used, and it has become all too accepted a phrase. I’m focusing on my experience with members of the Arab American community, who have lost the ways of our grandparents, who built wholesome families and shared their lives together. When men and women are looking to get married, they often ...
Amer Zahr: Merry Palestinian Christmas
https://youtu.be/tn7Hju4Fjkk
المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن و صالون الفن يقدمان: الفنان زياد نصر و الفنان علي الأتات 12-5-2018م
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwG0Hjtrcas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhZ-W3mO28k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnQ6X0Wqzvs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBjKVTLpzXY
المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن: مشاركة شعرية للأستاذ عماد القاموسي 12-5-2018م
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqWt-fWQRvU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6XAj9l0A_w
المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن: علي السندي يقرأ الشاعر الشيخ أحمد الوائلي 12-5-2018م
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXhN1dqzeb8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RPrOth6c6c
المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن: الدكتورة لبنى الجادري و التكيف الاجتماعي في ظل المجتمعات الجديدة
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ep_Ci1la74 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVUu53D5Wgs
Dr. Hani Bawardi: Historical Context of Arab American Literature [Arabic – Video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F86GLhgwed0
From Syria to Michigan: The Flint & Highland Park Pioneers in the Arab American Journey [Podcast]
Hani Bawardi Hani Bawardi is Associate Professor of History in the Department of Social Sciences, and principal member of the Center of Arab American Studies at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. He is the author of The Making of Arab Americans: From Syrian Nationalism to U.S. Citizenship. Bawardi has amassed a sizable private collection of manuscripts, ...
How Many More Women Are There? by BN Aziz
Sept 23/18 How many more women await our discoveries? My question is not related to ongoing exposés of sexual abuse suffered by women under a culture of male privilege and dominance-- the culture known by the new trope #MeToo. What concerns me here is a seemingly unrelated silence and need for exposure, namely accomplishments of ...
Dearborn Open Mic – Yasmine Badaoui Reads “Boy Named Mohamad”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiTJXKsCMAA
Dearborn Open Mic – Teri Bazzi – I Was Told To Listen to My Grandmother
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3ovo6xznRE
المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن – واقع النظام التعليمي في الولايات المتحدة للأستاذ حيدر مازن [Video | Arabic]
جزء 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1nBWbX_7Z0&feature=youtu.be جزء 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjgUZI6TPUY&feature=youtu.be جزء 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmnCLAEMF4c&feature=youtu.be جزء 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPpRVrDWqy8
Dr. Kristine Ajrouch: Effective Strategies to Help Youth Cope with Prejudice and Discrimination
Dr. Kristine Ajrouch, is Professor of Sociology at Eastern Michigan University. She is also Adjunct Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. Her research has focused, for over twenty years, on Arab Americans in the U.S. beginning with ethnic identity formation among adolescent children of immigrants followed by a ...
Literature Can Displace Anthropology
When I was well into my career as an anthropologist specializing in Himalayan peoples, I came across an historical episode concerning two no-longer living but obviously brilliant women who had performed remarkable political feats in the early 20th century. I undertook to uncover their stories, determined first because, inspired by feminist revelations, I myself was ...
Nadeem Recites Unfinished at Dearborn Open Mic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx9OdUBjmtA
Sara Raad at Dearborn Open Mic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzjE17bZRPk Sara's instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/sara.ibrahim.raad/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_ejc9SDHxM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUqRYDMMsYY
Dearborn Open Mic – Wissam Charafeddine Reading “Fragments”, “You Ask Me”, and “hi”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-Puz7C7Qm0
Morality Tales in US Public Life? 08.12.18 by B. Nimri Aziz
Many Americans who think their country is unquestionably the greatest have been chagrined by recent events that brought them to a new low point. The treatment of families seeking asylum at our southern border with forced separation of children from parents, some shipped to distant parts of the country, is shocking, embarrassing and reprehensible. Overwhelmingly, ...
الشاعر الأستاذ جابر الشكرجي يشارك في المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5F2eRhBWhw
النهر الخالد لمحمد عبد الوهاب مع ارتجال الفنان نشوان فاضل و الفنان خالد قمر في المنتدى الثقافي
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA9k-G0VLqg
Dearborn Open Mic (English) Next Wednesday August 15, 2018, Featuring Henda Al-Biatty
Henda provious articles in Dearborn Blog: Classroom at Home
الدكتور علي عجمي يقدم قصيدته الجديدة “هرقل” في المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPFkDcG7Bpo
الأستاذ مصطفى العربي: العقل العربي بين الحداثة و التقليد
محاضرة ألقيت في المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن برعاية المركز العربي الأمريكي للثقافة و الفنون و على مسرح المتحف العربي الأمريكي: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZtln1dsMqw الجزء الثاني: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHymuTbWniQ الجزء الثالث و الأخير و نقاش الجمهور: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5FA21YUeUE
Yousif Alqamoussi Reads from Chapter One Costa Rica in Dearborn Open Mic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INOgct17-TQ
30 Questions for a Deeper Conversation in 2018
Questions tend to reveal someone's values, qualities, fears, and personal past. When you are sitting in a bunch, and you feel that the environment is so shallow, that a fish will die in it, it is time to ask some deep questions. Here are some deep questions you can ask, relevant to our time: What ...
“Holes in the Wall” – Celebrates Area’s Iconic Diners and Restaurants
The work of 5 distinguished photographers is interpreted by 7 talented visual artists in an exhibition at Dearborn’s Padzieski Art Gallery July 12 through August 10. FREE Opening Party & Reception Thursday, July 12 from 6pm to 8pm, plus a special FREE “Art & Appetizers” Gallery Talk Thursday, August 2 (6-8pm). Dearborn, MI – Over ...
Why Did Apple Pick Daniel Johnston’s “Story of An Artist” for its Ad?
Daniel Dale Johnston (born January 22, 1961) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and visual artist who is regarded as a significant figure in outsider, lo-fi, and alternative music scenes. Most of his work consists of cassettes he recorded alone in his home, and his music is frequently cited for its "pure and childlike soul". Johnston ...
Why is Tariq Ramadan Imprisoned?
June 21/18 Barbara Nimri Aziz Harvey Weinstein isn’t in jail; neither is actor Kevin Spacey, chef Mario Batali, TV host Matt Lauer, nor New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman. Although some might like to see them behind bars. Even convicted felon Bill Cosby is free until he’s sentenced in September. (Being out of jail does ...
VANGUARD ARTISTS, ACTIVISTS CHANNEL ENERGY AT 2018 CONCERT OF COLORS
Music, spoken word, film, theater + community forum reflect the voices of generations Don Was All-Star Revue rocks again; new folk stage debuts Dearborn, Mich. (May 30, 2018) – Firebrands, fomenters, change agents and creative provocateurs – veteran and newcomer – dominate the lineup for the 26th Concert of Colors presented by the Arab American ...
From Decided, to Undecided, to Voting for Abdul El-Sayed
Politics is difficult for me to navigate, because I don’t like being beholden to a political template, political rhetoric, and I like to believe that human beings are multidimensional in that they do not fit nicely into categories. It’s ironic, because I am a psychiatrist, and we diagnose patients based on diagnostic criteria and categories. ...
Arab Women Authors Narrate More Than Women’s Experience
Arab Women Authors Narrate More Than Women’s Experience, 05/25/18 by BNimri Aziz A flood of women’s memoirs seems to have landed in the literary marketplace, along with quasi memoirs for children. Not only confessionals and more discoveries about our gender and its vicissitudes, but revelations of rebellious girls of past generations, (Brazen: Rebel Ladies who ...
Professor Abdulelah Assayegh, An International Arabic Language Authority Living in Dearborn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtG7WD2xANs شاعر وناقد أدبي وباحث أكاديمي. - من مواليد مدينة النجف - العراق ، في 11 مارس/ آذار 1941م. - يقيم حالياً في مشيغن - الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية. - المؤلفات: * أولاً : كتب تحليل النص الأدبي: 1. الزمن عند الشعراء العرب قبل الإسلام : طبعة أولى 1982 : دار كويت تايمس. الكويت طبعة ثانية ...
“Swing Status, Be Gone” by Barbara Nimri Aziz
During the last nationwide election, the one before that, and the preceding one as well, I was led to believe my vote really doesn't count. Why? Because I don't live in what our political parties define as a “swing state”, or a swing district, or a swing county. Our media focuses on races and ...
NO TWO PRAYER NICHES ARE ALIKE
Arab Muslim women from Minnesota are portrayed in an exhibition inspired by Islamic art Dearborn, Mich. (May 16, 2018) - Within an approximately 8’x10’ prayer niche lies a directional compass guiding spoken prayers for any Muslim who retreats into it. In Arabic, this personal niche is called a mihrab, and like mosque architecture, no two ...
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