Why is Tariq Ramadan Imprisoned?
June 21/18 Barbara Nimri Aziz Harvey Weinstein isn’t in jail; neither is actor Kevin Spacey, chef Mario Batali, TV host Matt Lauer, nor New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman. Although some might like to see them behind bars. Even convicted felon Bill Cosby is free until he’s sentenced in September. (Being out of jail does ...
Awaken Your Imagination
This article was originally published on Instructions Sold Separately. When we think of the concept of imagination we travel back in time to our own childhood. We think of playing pretend, exploring nature’s bounty, creating contraptions and wondering what lies beyond the stars. As a child you are roaming the world trying to enjoy it, understand ...
XO Detroit
A few weeks ago the Downtown Detroit Markets opened for the summer season in Capitol Park, Cadillac Square and 1441 Woodward Collective. These markets are filled with a uniquely curated and high-quality collection of local retailers and will include a variety of event programming throughout the summer that you won’t want to miss including the ...
Karbala Satellite Channel Reports on Dearborn Open Mic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmxv7NMYpvc
Upcoming Dearborn Open Mic Program on June 20, 2018
المركز العربي الأمريكي للثقافة و الفنون يتشرف بدعوتكم لحضور المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن ندوة بعنوان: الاستراتيجيات الفعالة لمساعدة الشباب على مواجهة التمييز و التحيّز للدكتورة كريستين عجروش السفير الدكتور علي عجمي يقرأ مظفر النواب مشاركات شعرية: هاني نعمة، عائد إسماعيل، علي السندي، جمال بيضون الأربعاء العشرين من حزيران 2018 - الساعة السابعة مساءً في قاعة المتحف ...
The Interminable Palestinian Uprising by Barbara Nimri Aziz
Jan 5/18 by Barbara Nimri Aziz “Naila and the Uprising” is a new film about Palestine—an old story with a new edition. An almost exclusively women’s production “Naila” effectively employs evocative animation alongside compelling personal testimonials of Palestinian resistance 30 years ago. The “Great March of Return” which the world just experienced-- immobilized and shamed ...
Top 10 News From Dearborn Last Month
Here are the headlines that occupied Dearborn News last month:
VANGUARD ARTISTS, ACTIVISTS CHANNEL ENERGY AT 2018 CONCERT OF COLORS
Music, spoken word, film, theater + community forum reflect the voices of generations Don Was All-Star Revue rocks again; new folk stage debuts Dearborn, Mich. (May 30, 2018) – Firebrands, fomenters, change agents and creative provocateurs – veteran and newcomer – dominate the lineup for the 26th Concert of Colors presented by the Arab American ...
From Decided, to Undecided, to Voting for Abdul El-Sayed
Politics is difficult for me to navigate, because I don’t like being beholden to a political template, political rhetoric, and I like to believe that human beings are multidimensional in that they do not fit nicely into categories. It’s ironic, because I am a psychiatrist, and we diagnose patients based on diagnostic criteria and categories. ...
On Memorial Day, Millennials Often Forgotten
Waving the flag is nice, but supporting our troops means knowing the unique struggle of Post 9/11 veterans and ensuring our service is not forgotten.
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 ...
MiCali Reports on Michigan Potholes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZS0dGFyP7k
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 ...
Gamal Abdel Nasser: A Dream That Couldn’t Come True by Ambassador Dr. Ali Ajami
Only 52 years between his birth and death. And despite this short life, Gamal Abdel Nasser’s achievements were more, by far, to be counted. The officer that emerged from a poor family, managed to rise high in the political life, not only in his home country, Egypt but also in the Arab world, as well ...
“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 ...
Professor Elsaegh: Poeticality is Needed Even in Your House
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2NOUbcVc_A
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 ...
NO TWO PRAYER NICHES ARE ALIKE
Arab Muslim women from Minnesota are portrayed in an exhibition inspired by Islamic art Dearborn, Mich. (May 16, 2018) - Within an approximately 8’x10’ prayer niche lies a directional compass guiding spoken prayers for any Muslim who retreats into it. In Arabic, this personal niche is called a mihrab, and like mosque architecture, no two ...
To Nurse and Not to Nurse
This article was originally published on Instructions Sold Separately. In today’s society breastfeeding is more encouraged for mothers and babies than other means of nourishment. However, with our fast-paced lives and being career women, sometimes breastfeeding is not the best option. There are moms that are working full-time who are incapable of taking time to ...
الشاعر صبحي سعد يلقي قصائد الزجل في المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF-9P6FTV78
5 of the Newest Restaurants in Dearborn
Did you know that over thirty new businesses have opened up in the downtown Dearborn areas over the past three years? Although we've seen closures of long time staples like Lynch's, the Double Olive, Kiernan's and Howell's, there has been a lot of promising development, and more to look forward to. We're here to showcase ...
Dr. Ali Ajami in Poet and Ambassador Dr. Abdulhassan Zalzala Memorial
https://youtu.be/o35UtPxmwTE
Reoun recites “Mother” and “Company Car” in Dearborn Open Mic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rOB73hvjac https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbHvjJuTbs8
2018 ARAB FILM FESTIVAL BRINGS U.S., MICHIGAN PREMIERES OF ARAB WORLD FILMS
Director talkbacks, workshops and special events amplify marginalized voices Dearborn, Mich. (May 7, 2018) – The Arab Film Festival (AFF) returns to Cinetopia Film Festival May 31 through June 10 with an expanded short films program, director talkbacks, special events and a robust lineup of award-winning feature films from the Arab World. Films will screen ...
Kamal Alabdaly Recites a Short Story in Dearborn Open Mic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd6_BXQ1z-E Books by Kamal Alabdaly:
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 ...
Top 10 News From Dearborn Last Month
Here are the headlines that occupied Dearborn News last month:
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 – Yasmine Badaoui – Selection of Poems
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKTjKwf2kXs
Dearborn Open Mic – Samar Kassem – Akzam 3ala Ahram (Midgets on Pyramids)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zbV2kwzgA4
Dearborn Open Mic – Nisreen Faraj – The Girl That Draws – One Bullet and Two CHoices
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D__4XANHi-Y
“Their Flags Are Everywhere” by Amer Zahr in Dearborn Open Mic
Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w89k6AyKnBM Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2y2n3HFPw4&t=1s Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3W-CwVZ1Syg Part 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5-x-yMRYtA&t=1s
Ali Elsendy Recites “To A Student” in Dearborn Open Mic
Dr. Hassan Bazzi introduces Ali https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20tyf9rLyV0 Ali recites his poetry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5SmsJEMmWI
Mr. Mohamad Hammoud Recites His Zajal in Dearborn Open Mic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV5Hd4x_wr4
Poet Ibaa Ismael Reads New Poems in Dearborn Open Mic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI8yOiQTSnc Introduced by Dr. Hassan Bazzi Ibaa Ismael: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJCJyTo63Ec
“Iraq’s Sacred Assemblies” Part 1
April 24, 2018 by Barbara Nimri Aziz, If there’s any argument against our excessive reliance on digital platforms to maintain social fabric, it is surely found inside Iraq today. Forced into long stays indoors, behind walls and gates, checked a dozen times between home, office and school, Iraqis have been confined to TV and ...
Zajal by Mohamad Charara in Dearborn Open Mic
Zajal is a traditional Arabic form of oral strophic poetry declaimed in a colloquial dialect. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5I7vOYp6wQ
DEARBORN WOMEN STAR IN ‘SEATED OPERA FOR THE SPOKEN WORD’ AT ARAB AMERICAN MUSEUM
World-renowned company brings its Undesirable Elements series of grassroots theater productions to southeast Michigan Performances presented in conjunction with new installation exhibition on Arab Muslim women Dearborn, Mich. (April 23, 2018) – An original theater production May 11-12, 2018, at the Arab American National Museum will present the experiences of six Arab American Muslim women ...
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. ...
First Arabic Poetry Published Book in Japanese Haiku Style by Dearborn’s AlMisiafy AlRikabi (Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avXFg9U_2N8 Haiku is a very short form of Japanese poetry. It is typically characterized by three qualities: The essence of haiku is "cutting" (kiru).[1] This is often represented by the juxtaposition of two images or ideas and a kireji ("cutting word") between them,[2] a kind of verbal punctuation mark which signals the moment of separation and colours ...
Top 10 News From Dearborn Last Month
Here are the headlines that occupied Dearborn News last month:
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 ...
Upcoming Screenings of Then They Came in Dearborn
https://vimeo.com/210002629 This award-winning film is about the internment of Japanese Americans during WW II, with free screenings in April in Dearborn and Ann Arbor. Please join us for Michigan Screenings of And Then They Came for Us Tuesday April 24, 2018 Dearborn Public Library 16301 Michigan Ave, Dearborn 7-9 pm Reserve your FREE tickets https://goo.gl/CYCg7r ...
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