MONK OF MOKHA VISITS ARAB MUSEUM MARCH 7
Yemeni coffee importer shares daring, miraculous journey Museum Store presents 1st Book + Print Festival April 6 April 12 book launch for Beydoun’s American Islamophobia Dearborn, Mich. (March 5, 2018) – In 2015, a California man named Mokhtar Alkhanshali made headlines when he undertook a journey to ancient farmlands in a country soon to ...
THIS WEEK: “God, Evil and Suffering” – Friday, March 9 at UFM
EVENT: Mini conference - "God, Evil and Suffering" DATE: Friday, March 9 TIME: 11:00 a.m.-3:45 p.m. LOCATION: 1030 CB Dr. Bruce Russell (Wayne State University) - "From Evil to Atheism via Inference to the Best Explanation" The problem of evil is the problem of how an all-knowing, all-powerful, wholly good God could allow the existence ...
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Abdullah Hammoud Nominated For Progress Michigan’s 2017 Legislator of the Year!
Wissam, Want to share some BIG news with you - I have been nominated for Progress Michigan's 2017 Legislator of the Year! Together, we have taken bold and progressive stances on the issues impacting our communities. From spearheading the nation's largest immigrant civil rights package to standing up to corporate polluters, we are on the ...
MUSEUM’S 13th ARAB FILM FESTIVAL AMPLIFIES MARGINALIZED VOICES
Festival receives Knight Arts Challenge grant Dearborn, Mich. (Feb. 20, 2018) – The Arab Film Festival (AFF)returns to metro Detroit May 31 to June 10, 2018 as part of the regional Cinetopia Film Festival. Now in its 13th year, AFF will present films from the Arab World and Arab America in the genres of drama, ...
A Call to Preserve Arabic Language Among Arab Americans – Poem by Ambassador Dr. Ali Ajami
A Call to Preserve Arabic Language Among Arab Americans - Poem by Ambassador Dr. Ali Ajami in the Dearborn Open Mic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAM1zAC2R0w
Nisreen Faraj Criticizes Nationalism and Bragging Among Arab Americans
Through her poem, Like You And Me, recited in the Dearborn Open Mic, on Wednesday February 7, 2018, at the Arab American Museum, Nisreen criticized how each Arab nationality in Dearborn think they are better than the other Arab nationalities. Listen to her here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8kObmSEXjs Dearborn Open Mic is a platform for artists, ...
New Winter Storm Coming to Dearborn This Thursday 2/7/2018
Event:Winter Storm WatchAlert: ...HEAVY SNOW POSSIBLE LATE THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY... ...WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM LATE THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Heavy snow possible. Total snow accumulations of 5 to 9 inches are possible. * WHERE...Livingston, Oakland, Macomb, Washtenaw, Wayne, Lenawee and Monroe Counties. * WHEN...From late Thursday night through Friday evening. ...
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Dearborn Open Mic: Wissam Charafeddine Recites My Healer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrUXE2IiGrY
Dearborn Industrial Generation, LLC Permit to Install No. 163-17 Approved
This email is to clarify the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality has taken two separate actions for the proposed permits for the Dearborn Industrial Generation, LLC (DIG) facility located at 2400 Miller Road, Dearborn, Michigan. The first, Permit to Install Application No. 56-17 for the new natural gas fired simple cycle turbine, was withdrawn ...
Dearborn Open Mic: Mohamad Hammoud Recites “The Yellow Flag”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU9gkEoXMAM
Dearborn Open Mic – Wissam Charafeddine – “Let Me Love You Few Years”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvguPYdXs5o
Fatimah Alhussieni Participates in Dearborn Open Mic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_NLLVFf1PE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ICTeX36mt0&t=4s
Killy Jones Recites “Can’t Be That, Why Do That” in Dearborn Open Mic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLBW45gjQDI
Nabil Hammoud Recites His Poem About Ahd Altamimi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcyHqSs1PFQ
Dearborn Timeline
June 12, 1928 – Voters in Dearborn, Fordson and part of Dearborn Township vote to consolidate into today’s City of Dearborn. January 9, 1929 – Clyde Ford elected as first mayor of Dearborn. 1929 – Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village opens. July 1, 1931 – Dearborn Inn opens as one of the first airport ...
Yasser Saad Recites His Poetry in Dearborn Open Mic (Video – Arabic)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5edphP_-TcE More from Yasser Saad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMdhXkRcGL8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzEta7P25EE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCRYIEIj00A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y04NdJiNJts
Sadeq AlAli Recites A Poem at DOM titled “An Old Woman in Her 20’s”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx4S_EkblnY
Nabil Hammoud Recites for Jerusalem in Dearborn Open Mic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2nJffIYiLk
Amer Zahr on House Hunters International – Jerusalem in DOM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx5U0Vi0Dog
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Nadine Jawad, VP of UFM’s Central Student Government, meets with Arab American High School Student Government Members
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA7h5gPZBOs
Ibaa Ismael Participates with Short Poems in Arabic and English in DOM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMDKub80IAs
Shaif Alzaokari Recites in Dearborn Open Mic “Jabeen Wifaky”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT2qGF3FgJk
Nadia Hamdan Recites “Fiqh Ishky” in Dearborn Open Mic (Arabic – Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jSNKCp12SI
Amer Zahr Recites “Story About A Man Named Shafeek” in Dearborn Open Mic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJWlmdKXjXE
Dr. Ali Ajami Speaks About the Transfer of the US Embassy to Jerusalem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYZmFq71zso
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ARTIST MENTORING PROGRAM SUPPORTS DETROIT IMMIGRANTS, REFUGEES
New York-based program introduced to Detroit, San Antonio, Newark, Oakland Dearborn, Mich. (Dec. 13, 2017) –The Arab American National Museum’s Growth Center @ AANM has partnered with the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) for the Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program: Detroit. Running March - June 2018, the program offers Detroit-based immigrant artists from all ...
If You Know by Wissam Charafeddine in Dearborn Open Mic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK_Bv6nvDzs
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Shaif Alzaokari, Yemeni Poet at Dearborn Open Mic (Arabic – Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26350IMNRr8
Syrian Poet, Ibaa Ismael, Recites in Dearborn Open Mic the Pains of Syria
Ibaa Ismail is an Arab American poet and translator, member of The Arab Writers’ Union. She graduated from Tishreen University in Syria in 1985 with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature, and then completed Master in English and American Literature from Eastern Michigan University in 1995. She is a general moderator of Numerical Aroud ...
Ahmed Al-Ansari Discusses His PhD Dissertation about Iraqi Identity in Dearborn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFiQZfFEzXA A full lecture by Ahmed Al-Ansari is coming soon to Dearborn Open Mic.
ART INSTALLATION ASKS VIEWERS TO HELP REVIVE UNIVERSITY OF BAGHDAD FINE ARTS LIBRARY
Iraqi American artist transforms grief over cultural loss into a call to action Concurrent presentations in Dearborn, Mich. and Taiwan Dearborn, Mich. (Nov. 16, 2017) – During the invasion of Iraq by a U.S.-led coalition in 2003, the College of Fine Arts at the University of Baghdad lost its entire library to looters who set ...
Ali Elsendy Presents Two New Poems in Dearborn Open Mic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVPBTPZSyok https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGbAQZlA1Ow
Yasmine Badaoui: Notorious RBG at Dearborn Open Mic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjPGkaQt-h8
Dr. Ali Ajami Recites “Adhin Bilal” Poem in Dearborn Open Mic
السفير الدكتور علي عجمي يلقي قصيدة "أذّن بلال" في المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch-sx9f9OCU
This is Your Dream
You have a dream, don't you? You believe that you will touch it one day. You don't let any negativity near it. You don't allow anything internal/external to affect it. You have a passionately-aggressive attitude towards accomplishing it. You're more confident than all the world's critics and skeptics put together. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnL5Ng_XQFk You rebelliously reject any ...
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Be Like A tree by Wissam Charafeddine
Be like a tree, a poem recited in Arab by Wissam Charafeddine in the Dearborn Open Mic about being like a tree in its peace and giving. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXRraNdHyfM
Have You Audited Yourself?
When was the last time you sat your self down and had an honest conversation with yourself? An honest one. Most people have not. If you're the type of person with goals and dreams and know deep down that you're capable of achieving them then you should almost always audit yourself. From the candy bar, ...
Serving Time At Gas Station – Part 1
Did you serve your time? That is the nick name given to working in a gas station when you first immigrate to Dearborn or first start looking for a job as a young Arab American. Although Gas Station Attendant is rated as one of the most dangerous jobs in America, Arab Americans, in Michigan specially, ...
Del Taco Receipt Analysis
https://youtu.be/DZ_1p1k7UtI
Since When Did We Have A Homeland? By Fatimah AlHussieni in DOM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54BpQYEyx-o
Arab Arts Forum Joins Major Conference in Detroit
DIWAN7 EXAMINES ISSUES, TRENDS IN ARAB AMERICAN ART Biennial conference joins MOVE 2017 Arab American summit Includes premiere of new commissioned music score, opening of new AANM exhibition on LGBTQ themes Dearborn, Mich. (Oct. 16, 2017) – Over the past 12 years and six convenings, the Arab American National Museum’s (AANM) DIWAN: A Forum for ...
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