Top News From Dearborn Last Month
Here are the headlines that occupied Dearborn News last month:
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 ...
Top 10 News From Dearborn Last Month
Here are the headlines that occupied Dearborn News last month:
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 ...
GenEd: Kill the Mockingbird, Already!
It’s time to shelve this nostalgic and dated gem.
Coming out
You know how sexuality is such a taboo topic to discuss in many parts around the world but it especially is one in our Middle Eastern community. Now, sexual orientation is even a bigger taboo to come near to than sexuality in general is. Western societies have not come completely in peace with it either. ...
A Hobby Sparks Fulfillment
Do something you love because you enjoy it, whatever it may be. The ROI is extremely rewarding not only in self-fulfillment but in your professional career as well. Doing something that you love for work is like meeting someone you love and marrying them. It's the same analogy with doing what you love for work. ...
The Pollution Series: Light Pollution in Dearborn
After talking about the Noise Pollution in the last episode, I started noticing more and more the sound of the streets and highways. Did you know that there are different sound quotient for each of the different materials that roads are made of? More on that here: http://www.pavementinteractive.org/pavement-noise/ But today I will talk about light pollution ...
Acculturation
A well-known model of acculturation comes from John Berry, a psychologist and theorist, famous for the four-fold model of acculturation strategies. He theorizes that immigrants and immigrant communities generally follow one of four strategies in adapting to their new community. They either assimilate, separate, integrate, or marginalize. Briefly, assimilation is when the immigrant or the ...
HOT Syrian music artists @AANM in October
Greetings! I hope this finds you well. The Arab American National Museum (AANM) is pleased to welcome leading Syrian American performers for concerts on Friday, Oct. 20 and Monday, Oct. 23. Below you’ll find a press release for the Oct. 20 Global Fridays appearance by Hello Psychaleppo; attached are photo of the artist, whose given ...
Coding Workshop at the W Institute!
Meet the programming languages that power the web, and write your first line of code! The W Institute located in the heart of East Dearborn is offering coding instruction. Step into the world of web development with Wissam Charafeddine, your expert instructor. During the introductory workshop, explore the building blocks of the web — HTML ...
Inside by Wissam Charafeddine in Dearborn Open Mic
We would like to remind you of Dearborn Open Mic taking place tomorrow Wednesday 10/4/2017 at 7PM to 9PM in the Arab American Museum (first Wednesday of each month). One of the contribution in the last Dearborn Open Mic was a poem by Wissam Charafeddine about meditation, happiness, and peace titled "Inside": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qL1CxnRnYA
A Woman’s Right to Move
When I was in eighth grade my teacher had us write down our goals for high school. My number one goal was to get accepted to the University of Michigan. I was unsure why I wanted to attend the institution so bad. Nobody in my immediate family had attended and I actually knew very little ...
Top 10 News From Dearborn Last Month
Here are the headlines that occupied Dearborn News last month:
Two Dearborn students will be national teen advisors to the Smithsonian
A message from Kim Silarsk, Communications Manager at Arab American National Museum: ARAB AMERICAN MUSEUM RECRUITS FOR SMITHSONIAN YOUTH ADVISORY COUNCIL Two Dearborn students will be national teen advisors to the Smithsonian Dearborn, Mich. (Sept. 28, 2017) – The Arab American National Museum – an Affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. ...
Dearborn Restaurants on the Top 100 Best Arab Restaurants Around America
Tamara Wong Azaiez, a contributor writer in the Arab America compiled a list of 100 top Arab restaurants in the USA. That's what she said: Itching for some delicious Arab eats? We have compiled a list of 100 of the highest rated Arab restaurants across the country. Arab Americans have been establishing popular restaurants across ...
Top 10 Restaurants Reviewed in Dearborn
Being a good restaurant is one thing, and getting a review on Google, Facebook, Foursquare or Yelp is something else. Nevertheless, you might find these most reviewed restaurants having some special tasting offerings that keeps people visiting and spending the time to review them: According to Yelp, here are the top 10 restaurants (by ...
Pink Floyd presents “Wait for Her” by Mahmoud Darwish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSl1kmQMG2E Lyrics With a glass inlaid with gemstones On a pool around the evening Among the perfumed roses Wait for her With the patience of a packhorse Loaded for the mountains Like a stoic, noble prince Wait for her With seven pillows laid out on the stair The scent of womens' incense fills the air ...
Ambassador of Poetry … Dr. Ali Ajami
Ambassador Dr. Ali Ajami advocates for Arabic Poetry through his attendance and participation in various literacy forums among which is Dearborn Open Mic.
Love Always Wins At The End, Poem by Alaa Barakat
The world has stood against me once It told me I was not welcome To run on its grounds To seek a dream I once had The world was tough and mean But I didn’t let it distract me From the journey I have already started The world did not change its mind immediately About ...
Aseel Srour Recites “ID Card” Poem by Mahmoud Darwish in Dearborn Open Mic
Aseel Srour recites in the Dearborn Open Mic the famous poem by Mahmoud Darwish titled "Bitaqit Haweyati" (ID Card), and sometimes called "Sajjil Ana Arabi" (Record: I am Arabic).
Ali Elsendy Electrifies The Dearborn Open Mic Once Again
Ali Elsendy, the young Iraqi American poet, once again electrifies the Dearborn Open Mic with his energetic poems, full of emotions and motivation. In the Dearborn Open Mic on September 6, 2017, recited Damn the Impossible (تباً للمستحيل): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKvODqUCFGM&t=22s He also recited a love poem titled He is Still a Baby (مازال طفلاً): ...
Multicultural Match
So, one day you meet this guy on Match.com. He’s quiet. He’s interesting. He’s worldly and open minded. Oh, and did I mention he’s gorgeous? How is it possible this beautiful guy isn’t already snatched up? And how is it possible that he’s smitten with you? This is what I thought 13 years ago when ...
Nick Vujicic in Arabic by Haidar Mazen
No arms, no legs - no worries! Nick Vujicic uses his story to inspire and inform people all around the world. Nick is an Australian Christian evangelist and motivational speaker born with tetra-amelia syndrome,[4] a rare disorder characterized by the absence of arms and legs. He is one of the seven known surviving individuals planet-wide ...
Racism Smiles On S. Brady by Yasmine Badaoui
Yasmine Badaoui is a free lance writer, and she is an editor in Miss Muslim.She has a bachelors degree in Psychology from Iowa State University. Yasmine recited her poem at the Dearborn Open Mic last Wednesday that talks about the controversial Statue of Hubbard and the discussion of its removal from Dearborn.
Amer Zahr … Activism Through Comedy and Writing
Amer Zahr is an Arab-American of Palestinian descendant. He is known for his stand-up comedian, writer, filmmaker, producer, adjunct law professor at the University of Detroit Mercy, and former lawyer. He was born in Jordan to refugee parents of Palestinian heritage originally from Nazareth and then moved to the United States when he was three ...
Dearborn Open Mic … The Artistic Oasis in Arab American Dearborn
"Dearborn has a consortium of Arabic poets, Young Artists, and Arab American creative writing talents, that it should be considered an intellectual and artistic center, if it wasn't for the lack of that expression in the community. We are going to change that."
The Argeeli Romance
I was sitting in a café with a friend of mine. We both ordered our argeeli (another name for the hookah or shisha). These are water pipes, and are used to smoke flavored or straight tobacco. I ordered mine mint flavored, dried, with a glass of Perrier and he ordered a grape mint argeeli and a glass ...
Endangered Art
Imagine a world without art. No Rembrandt, no Hemingway, no Kubrick, no J.S. Bach, not even “Cirque du Soleil”. As scary is that may sound, let us imagine for a moment that artistic imagination isn’t a human characteristic. Is it possible then, that we would lose our inspiration, and the compass of our humanity or ...
Top 10 News From Dearborn August 2017
Here are the headlines that occupied Dearborn News last month:
Here are the top videos Originating or mentioning Dearborn during August 2017
Here are the top 10 videos coming from Dearborn August 2017
“Too Religious”
Discouragement from Muslims towards other Muslims practicing religion is common in Dearborn and overlooked often.
Attack with Explosives At the Divine Child Church [VIDEO]
Dearborn Police are searching for a man who witnesses say threw a commercial-grade firework into the Divine Child Church chapel in Dearborn while prayer was taking place. Dearborn Police Reported: Dearborn, Mi. — On August 23, 2017, at approximately 7:30pm, the Dearborn Police responded to Divine Child Church on report of an explosion and malicious destruction ...
Empower Your Child’s Future
It’s more important now than ever to empower children by giving them the tools they need to develop their own identity and life skills.
Five Events To Attend in Dearborn In The Next Couple Weeks
As we enjoy the last month in the summer of 2017, five events are coming up in Dearborn that you probably want to take advantage off:
Where to Watch Solar Eclipse In Dearborn and Why You Should
And so this is a lesson I've learned, and it's one that applies to life in general: duration of experience does not equal impact. One weekend, one conversation -- hell, one glance -- can change everything. Cherish those moments of deep connection with other people, with the natural world, and make them a priority. Yes, ...
As Construction Activity Picks Up in Dearborn, Rats Activity Increases
The city of Dearborn published: Mayor John B. O’Reilly directed the extensive deployment of 15 city inspectors today (Aug. 18) to beef up rodent control efforts across the city, and to educate residents about eliminating conditions that could lead to pest problems. The current construction in the city has agrevated the problem, in addition to ...
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