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

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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 ...

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

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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]

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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”

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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:

Dearborn Open Mic – Raneem Omar Recites “Untitled” and “We Are”

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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 – Ali AL Arithy Recites “These Are All The Things I Could’ve Said”

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The Documentary That Every Arab Should Watch … The Great Arab Revolt

Part 1: 1908 - 1916 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQM2qmogA3k   Part 2: 1916 - 1917 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5v1q3DZ8wI Part 3: 1917-1920 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj4YLjHBdpw     For more information on the Ottoman Empire: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/ottoman-empire  

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 – Amer Zahr on Ancestry Commercials and AlNakba Day

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الندوة للفكر الحر – كلمات في الحب مع الشاعر شوقي بزيع – ديربورن 10 أيار 2019م

البيوت ُالتي لا تكونين فيها تضيقُ بجدرانها الموحشه الثياب ُالتي ترتدين سواها تئنُّ من البرد, والكلماتُ التي لا تقولينها تتجمَّع مثل الأرامل حول ضريح اللغه ينبغي أن تغيبي لكي تفضحي وحشتي ينبغي أن يضمّك شخصٌ سواي لكي تدركي كم أُحبُّك... شوقي بزيع https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vlu0CYtDmM

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 ...

Dearborn Open Mic – Yara Elhaj and Oussama Masrizada – La Vie En Rose

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Dearborn Open Mic – Synthetic Masculinity by LaTerry Adulnoor Yaseen

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​Novelist Mark Haddon Quit Twitter. Not Because It’s Terrible, But Because It Prevents Him From Being Great by Cal Newport

Source: Novelist Mark Haddon Quit Twitter. Not Because It’s Terrible, But Because It Prevents Him From Being Great May 18, 2019 Photo by Luis Marina. Last week, the British novelist Mark Haddon wrote an essay for the Financial Times about his recent decision to take a break from Twitter. What I liked about this piece ...

أوراق من التاريخ 2: اللاجئون الفلسطينيون يصلون إلى مينا صور إبان النكبة 17 أيار\مايو 1948م

ميناء صور، جنوب لبنان ـ ١٧ أيار/مايو ١٩٤٨ اللاجئون واللاجئات من فلسطين يصلون إلى المينا. والدي محمد عيسى أستاذ الحساب في الكلية الجعفرية آنذاك قبل زواجه من الوالدة، المعلمة في المدرسة الجعفرية للبنات، بسنة ومعه الأستاذ ميكائيل قواص الذي علمني الرياضيات في الجعفرية خلال سيتينيات القرن الماضي يستقبلان الاجئون واللاجئات بالنزول من الزوارق في 1948/5/17 ...

​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.) ...

PODCAST: Dearborn Open Mic English 5-15-19

Youtube Audio Only: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDA_2L7OCHg   Youtube Live Broadcast Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSfKiQ2vbkk&feature=youtu.be

Dearborn Open Mic – Rewa Zeinati recites “Belly” … Expectations from an Arab Woman

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