Category: LOCAL NEWS

Podcast: المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن 7 آب 2019م

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

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Podcast: المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن -3 تموز 2019م

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Dearborn Open Mic – Raneem Omar Recites An Untitled Poem June 19, 2019

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المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن – الشاعر أسامة جمال الدين يقدم باقة من أشعاره في لقاء تموز 2019م

المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن - الشاعر أسامة جمال الدين يقدم مقطع من "رسالة إلى أبي العراق" 2019م https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vatiuQQDco تتمة:ـ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Lt2N2zHJdw   Dearborn Blog is sponsored by: (to sponsor please visit us at dearbornblog.com/sponsors)

​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 ...

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

Independence Rethink – any day is good to search American history

A few moments of holiday time can be useful to review some history we may think are well known. Here are two events to add to our repertoire of notifications and reflections in connection with US Independence Day. from columnist Robert Hennelly-- facts to remember about New Jersey state history. https://www.insidernj.com/flow-ebb-liberty-njs-lost-history/ NJ women had the ...

Dearborn Open Mic – featured visual artist: Maha Hamayed 6-19-19

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​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 – In Memory of the Great Arab Revolt by Wissam Charafeddine

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​Senator Hawley on Social Media: “addiction is actually the point.” by Cal Newport

Senator Hawley on Social Media: “addiction is actually the point.” June 29, 2019 Photo by Natureofthought. Early last month, Josh Hawley, the newly-elected senator from Missouri, gave a speech about big tech at the Hoover Institute. He made a couple points that caught my attention, such as when he said this: “Social media only works ...

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

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Podcast: المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن -12 حزيران 2019م

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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 ...

National Arab Orchestra – Ghadan – Suad Bushnaq

National Arab Orchestra On the Shoulders of Giants: Arab Women In Music November 10, 2018 Trinity University, San Antonio TX Ghadan - Suad Bushnaq Violins: Layth Sidiq, Katie VanDusen, Insia Malik, Laura Harada, Nady Benyamine, Eylem Basaldi, Roberto Riggio, Sachiyo Yoshimoto, Jumanah Hassan. Viola: Megan Gould, Marandi Hostetter, Andrea Vercoe. Cello: George Crotty. Bass: Jonathan ...

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  

Documentaries About Lebanon’s post-civil war generation

VICE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQGCijlrUM8 After nine years of party infighting and political chaos, Lebanon finally held parliamentary elections this May. In an unprecedented event, a new party that rejects the country’s deeply divisive sectarian system has entered the game. Now that a whole generation born after the bloody civil war is of voting age, we set out ...

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The Ever Dependable Bully on Embassy Row; Venezuela and Iraq Are No Longer Worlds Apart. May 26/19 by B Nimri Aziz

The Ever Dependable Bully on Embassy Row; Venezuela and Iraq Are No Longer Worlds Apart. May 26/19 by B Nimri Aziz Embassy raided; citizens starved by sanctions; coveted oil resources targeted--again. The United States is still punishing Iran for the 1979 takeover of its ‘sacred’ premises, its embassy in Tehran. By contrast, when American authorities ...

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 ...

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 ...

​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 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 ...