Category: LOCAL NEWS
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 ...
الندوة للفكر الحر- تكريم المركز العربي الأمريكي للثقافة والفنون للشاعر شوقي بزيع في ديربورن
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Dearborn Open Mic – Rewa Zeinati Intro to Open Mic 5-15-19 – To Be Arab or Not Arab
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Five Dearborn Seniors Place 2nd In Michigan in ES Sports High School League
Star International Academy’s 12th grade senior boys (Bahaa Al-Sultani, Waseem Alward, Nader Baaghil, and Wali Fardin) placed 2nd in the state of Michigan for the 2019 State Champs ES Sports High School League Series. They dominated playoffs and made it to the super bowl vs. Troy Athens High School. They fell short by just a ...
الندوة – الشاعر شوقي بزيع يقرأ قصيدة “متحف الشمع” في 10 أيار 2019م في ديربورن
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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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الندوة جمعية الفكر الحر – شوقي بزيع يقرأ مقاطع من قصيدة الصوت مهداة لشهداء المقاومة – ديربورن
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المنتدى الثقافي في ديربرون – في رثاء الوالد و الوالدة للشاعر محمد فرحات
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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 ...
State Board Appoints Michael Rice As Next State Superintendent
May 7, 2019 LANSING – The State Board of Education today selected Dr. Michael Rice to be Michigan’s next State Superintendent. Following a full day interviewing three finalists, the State Board voted 5-3 to appoint the 56-year-old Rice, over the other candidates: Wayne RESA Superintendent Randy Liepa, and Ann Arbor Public Schools Superintendent Jeanice Swift. ...
ديربورن تستقبل الشاعر العربي الكبير شوقي بزيع يوم الجمعة
https://www.facebook.com/freethinkingsociety/videos/401030420737287 تقوم الندوة (مؤسسة الفكر الحر) بإعلان انطلاقتها في أمسية شعرية تستضيف فيها الشاعر العربي و اللبناني الكبير شوقي بزيع.ـ الندوة شوقي بزيع شاعر لبناني معاصر ولد في الجنوب اللبناني، في العام 1951 ميلادي. أنهى دراسته الابتدائية في مدرسة القرية, والثانوية في صور. حصل على شهادة الكفاءة في اللغة العربية وآدابها من كلية التربية الجامعة ...
Dearborn Open Mic – Ali Sobh Brings Tears to Crowds With His Palestine Poem
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المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن – ناصر الحاج و أسامة مصري زاده يقدمان ما نسي العرزال لزكي ناصيف في ذكراه
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Assange or Khashoggi: Whither Journalistic Standards? by B. Nimri Aziz
April blog https://www.counterpunch.org/.../just-another-spring-in-progress/ May1, 2019 Assange or Khashoggi: Whither Journalistic Standards? by B. Nimri Aziz During the media frenzy, diplomatic flurry and widespread speculations around a hitherto marginal Saudi journalist’s apparently grizzly demise in Istanbul’s Saudi consulate last October, my thoughts stayed with the deathly silence that had fallen around Wikileaks’ founder and director. Information ...
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) ...
المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن – نقيلي أحلى زهرة لزكي ناصيف تقديم الفرقة الموسيقية
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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. ...
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Quits Facebook. The Media Bungled the Story. by Cal Newport
AOC Quit Facebook. The Media Bungled the Story. April 18, 2019 Photo by bruce mars from Pexels Over the weekend, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announced on a podcast that she was quitting Facebook as part of her efforts to cut back on her social media use more generally. This was big news because the 29-year-old AOC is ...
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 – زكي ناصيف … رائد مجدد في الموسيقى العربية … إعداد ناصر الحاج و تقديم مجموعة من الفنانين ج1
علي السندي، عضو المركز العربي الأمريكي للثقافة و الفنون يقدم ناصر الحاج:ـ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvAuVSKbmBA ناصر الحاج، رئيس اللجنة الموسيقية في المركز العربي الأمريكي للثقافة و الفنون:ـ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okQ_e6tJUXE المهندسة الفنانة سوسن ياسين:ـ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ6kMf_jSO8 المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن - زكي ناصيف رائد مجدد في الموسيقى العربية - إعداد و تقديم ناصر الحاج ج3:ـ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGnwd9VVsRc المنتدى الثقافي في ...
Jama Alyad Provides High-Quality Posters for Palestinian Cause
Some projects involve a huge group and go on for months and years; some projects involve a few people with work turned around in days or even hours. All output from the collective is available in PDF form for non-commercial use. WEBSITE https://www.instagram.com/p/BvfwpXPhO25/ The idea for this collective has been around for many years, if ...
Saving Aleppo’s seeds from the Syrian war
Arab Film Series: Wild Relatives ARAB FILM SERIES Wild Relatives 7 p.m. Thursday, April 18 at AANM PURCHASE TICKETS Following a transportation of seeds between the Arctic and Lebanon, Wild Relatives starts in 2012 when an international agricultural research center was forced to relocate from Aleppo to Lebanon due to the Syrian Revolution turned war. ...
Palestinian Youth Movement 2018 Review
WEBSITE Source: https://www.pymusa.com/2018-year-in-review/ Dear Friends and Family of the PYM,We hope this finds you in good health and spirits. We write to share with you some of the highlights of the work we’ve done in 2018, share what we have in store for 2019, and ask for your continued support as we start the new year. ...
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
ACCESS announces leadership transitions
Maha Freij promoted to Executive Director; Wisam Qasem Fakhoury promoted to Chief Financial Officer Dearborn, Mich. (March 25, 2019) – ACCESS’ CEO Hassan Jaber announced today that Maha Freij, previously the Deputy Executive Director & Chief Financial Officer, has been appointed to serve as Executive Director of the 48-year-old organization. Wisam Qasem Fakhoury, previously the ...
2nd BOOK + PRINT FEST CELEBRATES CUTTING-EDGE LITERARY ARTS, CRAFTS AND AUTHORS OF COLOR
Event includes the official launch of new small press and arts collective, Maamoul Press Dearborn, Mich. (March 26, 2019) – Connecting communities to generate appreciation and understanding has long been a hallmark of the Arab American National Museum (AANM). Providing a programmatic platform that unites artists of color in a celebration of creativity and self-expression ...
المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن – فيروزيات مع سوسن ياسين، زياد نصر، ناصر الحاج، وأسامة مصري زاده
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ACCESS TO MARK 48 YEARS OF SERVICE AT MARCH 28 GALA IN DOWNTOWN DETROIT
Honorees include philanthropists Muna and Basem Hishmeh Michigan’s Gov. Whitmer, Dearborn’s Mayor O’Reilly among scheduled speakers Dearborn, Mich. (March 21, 2019) – Nearly 2,000 guests are expected to celebrate ACCESS—the nation’s largest Arab American community nonprofit organization—and its 48 years of service at its Annual Dinner at 6 p.m. Thursday, March 28, at the Detroit ...
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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Ep. 2 – The Diplomat with Dr. Ali Ajami
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Sponsors Needed for Dearborn Blog 2.0
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
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المؤتمر الأول حول التربية والتعليم: الهوية العربية الأمريكية: التعليم بين التحديات والتوقعات [videos]
تقديم https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SZ0zwxOba0 دور المدارس الأهلية المستقلة في التعليم https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm7QG8ClY-k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqJkdWRI_WM التعليم حقّ للجميع https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7Q61BiodWg التعليم في سبيل تنمية مستدامة https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fNZuSHUGyM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGm2Dd5TUAw أهمية التعليم في بناء المستقبل https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld9x-Wo1aPA الشراكة بين المدرسة والمجتمع https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It8z9SBXSYo التعليم بين التحديات والتوقعات https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVHTSnVr_v0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1QSvHlsHXY الجاليات العربية والإستثمار في التعليم https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2YpCvYfeT8
Dearborn Blog Contributors & Sponsors Meetup
Hello again! This is a reminder email to accept the invitation and RSVP to our first Dearborn Bloggers Meetup session tomorrow evening. These sessions will take place on the second Thursday of each month at the Dearborn Blog Headquarters, from 7 to 9PM. There will be short introductions, followed by socializing over light snacks and ...
PODCAST: الهوية العربية الأمريكية بين التحديات و التوقعات الجزء الأول
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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 ...
Top 10 News From Dearborn Last Month
Here are the headlines that occupied Dearborn News last month:
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