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 – مايكل إبراهيم و مقدمة حول التقاسيم العربية على العود Michael Ibrahim And An Introduction of Arabic Taqaseem

The National Arab Orchestra’s founder and music director, Michael Ibrahim, is a dynamic conductor and a recognized innovator in the Arab music circuit. A Metro-Detroit native, he was born into a Syrian immigrant family of humble origins. He began his musical studies on the ‘Ud, and later studying the Bassoon and Nay as his musical ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Dearborn Open Mic – Tariq Luthun Guest Poet at DOME – June 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLptr6RGJVI   Tariq recites two more poems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPzRcetgarE

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEnp1umxBYo To hear the rest of the talk, check out the podcast. Dearborn Blog is sponsored by:

PODCAST: Dearborn Open Mic English 6-19-19

Youtube Audio Only: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5o2Rz36t-w    

المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن – علي بلعيد يقدم باقة من أشعاره الشعبية اليمنية – حزيران 2019م ديربورن

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9frJmj5aiXo   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBvMZR6QSRA Dearborn Blog is sponsored by:

​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 ...

Naval Ravikant, Email, and the Future of Work by Cal Newport

Naval Ravikant, Email, and the Future of Work June 19, 2019 In a recent appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast, Naval Ravikant referenced economist Ronald Coase’s 1937 paper, “The Nature of the Firm,” which later helped Coase win a Nobel prize. The mathematical details of this paper are dense, but on Rogan’s show, Ravikant summarizes its ...

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk2IH8v9B1I   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=228AonjjROc   Dearborn blog is sponsored by:

المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن – د. علي عجمي: صناع الحضارة – إسهام العرب في بناء الحضارة الإنسانية

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ozmzGQwiSk   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwWZ7L0eRew   موقع صناع الحضارة على الفيس بوك: https://www.facebook.com/civilization.builders/   Dearborn Blog is sponsored by:

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 ...

Dearborn Open Mic – I want you happy by Ali Al Arithy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0tP2XKGMIo   Dearborn Blog Sponsors:

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 ...

Dearborn Open Mic presents featured poet Yasmine Rukia [5 Videos]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOoO1Eg0-k8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Irmi2kditS4   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRW7ibrEp8s   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbYSm7vImnk   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QDd2VmxVdE    

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 ...

Dearborn Open Mic – Rewa Zeinati Recites “When My Mother Discovered A Box Of Tampons In My Bag”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eruEJAgD6u8   Dearborn Blog is sponsored by:

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 ...

Dearborn Open Mic – Wissam Charafeddine Recites “The Opposite Swings” and “Millions of Balls”

Wissam Charafeddine recites couple poems from his poetry book, the Opposite Swings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW0K7VBzLno   Dearborn Blog is sponsored by:

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