Category: EDUCATION
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, ...
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 ...
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 (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
Dearborn Culture Forum Program Tonight [Arabic]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5psQ-eoIomU
Yousif Alqamoussi Reads from Chapter One Costa Rica in Dearborn Open Mic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INOgct17-TQ
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 ...
13th annual Arab Film Fest @ AANM
The Arab American National Museum (AANM) cordially invites you to the 13th annual Arab Film Festival (AFF), which takes place June 1st through June 10th. AFF strives to bring the best of the best films from around the Arab World and Arab American community to the doorstep of metro Detroit, with many films having their ...
Dearborn Open Mic – Dr. Sally Howell: A History of the Arabs in Dearborn
Title of Lecture From Laborers to Culture Makers: A History of the Arabs in Dearborn Sally Howell (Ph.D.) Associate Professor of History; Director, Center for Arab American Studies at the University of Michigan-Dearborn Sally Howell is director of the Center for Arab American Studies and associate professor of history at UM-Dearborn. She received her Ph.D. from the ...
Why are Arab American Students Among the Highest GPA Achievers?
Arabs and Arab Americans care the most about their children’s education. Furthermore, education for Arab parents is a very important matter and it takes them a lot of time, money, and effort to help their kids to receive the highest GPA and get the best grades and highest achievers among all students. Source: Why are ...
Iraq’s Sacred Assemblies Part 2 by B. Nimri Aziz
Classrooms are not normally perceived as a backdrop for cultural exchange, a setting vital to preserving tradition. If they are not, what is an assembly of fourteen twenty-year olds doing, Iraqi in this case, engaged in analytical discourse in their college seminar room? They could be aspiring filmmakers, young writers critiquing a novel, journalism interns ...
Dearborn Open Mic – Nisreen Faraj – The Girl That Draws – One Bullet and Two CHoices
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D__4XANHi-Y
GenEd: All Testing Left Behind
Testing, not kids, is what's failing across America.
Classroom at Home
This article was originally published on Instructions Sold Separately . It’s a long day when you must not only keep your child occupied but also learning while juggling everything else that you need to do. The way your child learns, how you structure their day and how you interact with him/her depends greatly on their temperament. ...
Dearborn’s Ali Charafeddine Shares Success Mindset and Promotes Knowledge through Acez Top Ten Takeaways
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94W0F9T0PQ4 Ali Charafeddine is a young Arab-American Entrepreneur, currently a Senior Director of Banking at Quicken Loans, and the founder and CEO of Acez Media. Ali started his entrepreneurial career sponsoring events during his Highschool years (Fordson High School). He then grew a distribution business with his brothers into a $1.4 million company. He represents ...
Kamelya Youssef, the Authentic Arab American Ecopoet Activist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4biiuhbW6M “People usually comment that your name is also a flower or that you’re named after it or it after you.” With these words Kamelya Youssef once started her poem Xylem Kamelya Youssef is a Detroit-based poet, organizer, graduate student, and teacher. She is a member of the Z Collective and a board member of ...
Hadi Eldebek on Why Must Artists Be Poor? and Grantpa
https://www.ted.com/talks/hadi_eldebek_how_artists_contribute_to_the_economy_and_how_we_can_support_them?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare The arts bring meaning to our lives and spirit to our culture -- so why do we expect artists to struggle to make a living? Hadi Eldebek is working to create a society where artists are valued through an online platform that matches artists with grants and funding opportunities -- so they can focus ...
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, ...
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 ...
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
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 ...
Nadine Jawad, VP of UFM’s Central Student Government, meets with Arab American High School Student Government Members
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA7h5gPZBOs
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 ...
GenEd: Kill the Mockingbird, Already!
It’s time to shelve this nostalgic and dated gem.
The Pollution Series: Light Pollution in Dearborn
After talking about the Noise Pollution in the last episode, I started noticing more and more the sound of the streets and highways. Did you know that there are different sound quotient for each of the different materials that roads are made of? More on that here: http://www.pavementinteractive.org/pavement-noise/ But today I will talk about light pollution ...
A Woman’s Right to Move
When I was in eighth grade my teacher had us write down our goals for high school. My number one goal was to get accepted to the University of Michigan. I was unsure why I wanted to attend the institution so bad. Nobody in my immediate family had attended and I actually knew very little ...
Two Dearborn students will be national teen advisors to the Smithsonian
A message from Kim Silarsk, Communications Manager at Arab American National Museum: ARAB AMERICAN MUSEUM RECRUITS FOR SMITHSONIAN YOUTH ADVISORY COUNCIL Two Dearborn students will be national teen advisors to the Smithsonian Dearborn, Mich. (Sept. 28, 2017) – The Arab American National Museum – an Affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. ...
Racism Smiles On S. Brady by Yasmine Badaoui
Yasmine Badaoui is a free lance writer, and she is an editor in Miss Muslim.She has a bachelors degree in Psychology from Iowa State University. Yasmine recited her poem at the Dearborn Open Mic last Wednesday that talks about the controversial Statue of Hubbard and the discussion of its removal from Dearborn.
Dearborn Open Mic … The Artistic Oasis in Arab American Dearborn
"Dearborn has a consortium of Arabic poets, Young Artists, and Arab American creative writing talents, that it should be considered an intellectual and artistic center, if it wasn't for the lack of that expression in the community. We are going to change that."
Endangered Art
Imagine a world without art. No Rembrandt, no Hemingway, no Kubrick, no J.S. Bach, not even “Cirque du Soleil”. As scary is that may sound, let us imagine for a moment that artistic imagination isn’t a human characteristic. Is it possible then, that we would lose our inspiration, and the compass of our humanity or ...
Empower Your Child’s Future
It’s more important now than ever to empower children by giving them the tools they need to develop their own identity and life skills.
Where to Watch Solar Eclipse In Dearborn and Why You Should
And so this is a lesson I've learned, and it's one that applies to life in general: duration of experience does not equal impact. One weekend, one conversation -- hell, one glance -- can change everything. Cherish those moments of deep connection with other people, with the natural world, and make them a priority. Yes, ...
The Pollution Series: Noise Pollution in Dearborn
The Congress declares that it is the policy of the United States to promote an environment for all Americans free from noise that jeopardizes their health or welfare. To that end, it is the purpose of this chapter to establish a means for effective coordination of Federal research and activities in noise control, to authorize ...
Parenting Through Separation and Divorce
Divorce is a short-term crisis and a long-term process of understanding and healing for families. Statewide, Michigan had 29,708 divorces in 2014, a rate of 6 divorces per 1,000 residents, which is 14 percent lower than the number of divorces in 2004. There were 1.92 marriages for every divorce in 2014, the highest ratio since ...
Creativity is Intentional
I believed that because I was not naturally gifted in things like drawing and painting, or drawing stick figures for that matter, I never bothered to explore my personal artistic talent or creativity.
What’s bugging you?
What bugs you? Some insects may be harmless or even beneficial, but if we’ve developed some sort of bias, phobia or generalization towards creepy crawlers and looming flyers, our natural reaction when confronted with one, might be to either smash it, swat it or to get out of its way. Sometimes, it seems like they ...
A Brooklyn Native and Arab Film Maker Moves to Dearborn
“A genuine odyssey is not about piling up experiences. It is a deeply felt, risky, unpredictable tour of the soul. “ - Thomas Moore Mo Rida is an independent writer and producer known for establishing the popular 48 Hour Film Project in the Middle East. The 48 Hour Film Project is a filmmaking competition that ...
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