Tag: poetry
Divided Voices or United Future? Wards Debate in Dearborn
Excerpt:Dearborn stands at a crossroads as voters consider whether to adopt a ward (district-based) system for city council elections. Proponents say it’s a matter of fair representation for east and south residents; opponents warn it may tear at the sense of “one city.” Here are the arguments — historical, social, and political — for creating ...
DOME 2025: Fractured: Between Truth and Lies by Reem Abou-Samra
a political scientist, educator, and poet whose work explores Muslim American identity, belonging, and political thought. With over 15 years of teaching experience and current research on cultural return among Muslim millennial women, she brings a powerful blend of scholarship, creativity, and community engagement to every space she enters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UPhuiQvnXI JOIN DOME
AlNadwa Freethinking Society Presents: Liberation is Our Word
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My Top 10 Reads for 2024
This year, Wissam Charafeddine explored a diverse range of books that broadened his understanding of history, humanity, and innovation. Here are his top 10 picks for 2024, complete with a synopsis of each book, its author, a memorable quote, and resources for readers. 1. War Against the People by Jeff Halper Synopsis of the Book: ...
Where Are The People? A poetry mini film by jessica Care moore
Where Are The People is a mini film by poet jessica Care moore. The poem is in her latest collection, We Want Our Bodies Back on Harper/Amistad. The film highlights some of the independent business that have survived gentrification in the Cass Corridor neighborhood of Detroit. The live recording with JCM and Trey Simon was ...
المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن – الشاعر الدكتور قحطان المندوي يقرأ مقطع من حنين لشمس العراق
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المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن -السفير الدكتور علي عجمي يقرأ قصائد الغضب في أشعار العرب
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Dearborn Open Mic – Michael Fawaz – “At What Cost”
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Dearborn Open Mic – Michael Fawaz Recites Imagine
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Dearborn Open Mic – Featured Poet – Jamal C
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المنتدى الثقافي في ديربون DOMA Oct 2, 2019
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Dearborn Open Mic – Hadeel Ismail Recites from her poetry book “All I am”
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Dearborn Open Mic – Powerful Performance! Reda Taleb Recites “Whose Daughter Are You?” [VIDEO]
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Dearborn Open Mic – Nour Jouni Recites “A Girl’s World”
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Dearborn Open Mic – Malek AlMadari Recites Selected Poems
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Dearborn Open Mic – Ali AlArithy recites “I Took A Break” on 8/21/19
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Dearborn Open Mic – Hanan Yahya Recites A Selection of Her Poems
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Dearborn Open Mic – Wissam Charafeddine recites “We all want to watch the sunset in Santorini”
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Dearborn Open Mic – Hussein Dekmak – My Home, Don’t Think Small, Speaking to You in Silence
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الندوة للتفكير الحر- الأستاذ عون جابر يفتتح أمسية الندوة الأولى والسيدة زينب عساف تقدم شوقي بزيع
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pLR1TMDp1Q الندوة للفكر الحر - الشاعرة زينب عساف تقدم الشاعر شوقي بزيع في أمسية ديربورن - تتمة https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drrjEG2ffHs Sign up for Dearborn Open Mic: bit.ly/DearbornOpenMic Sponsor Dearborn Blog: dearbornblog.com/sponsors Thank you for our sponsors:
المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن – علي جواد يقرأ قصيدة: الشمس لا تشرق … أنت تستيقظين
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Dearborn Open Mic – Raneem Omar Recites An Untitled Poem June 19, 2019
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Dearborn Open Mic – Ali AL Arithy Recites “These Are All The Things I Could’ve Said”
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الندوة – الشاعر شوقي بزيع يقرأ قصيدة “متحف الشمع” في 10 أيار 2019م في ديربورن
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Dearborn Open Mic – Rewa Zeinati Recites “What We Will Tell” About Lebanon
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Dearborn Open Mic – LaTerry Adulnoor Yaseen Recites Womanhood
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Freethinking Society Launches with Poet Shawky Bzeih’s Voice in Dearborn MI
حوارات، لقاءات وندوة شعرية مميزة للشاعر الكبير شوقي بزيع في المتحف العربي الأميركي، بإستضافة وتنظيم "الندوة" جمعية الفكر الحُر.ـ Freethinking Society من ”عناوين سريعة لوطن مقتول”.. مرورا ً ”بقمصان يوسف”وصولاً إلى: ”إلى أين تأخذني أيها الشعر”.. حمل الشاعر شوقي بزيع الريف والأنوثة ليسير بلوحة الجنوب اللبناني مجملاً كل الأمكنة، وتنقل بخبز المرقوق وبالمرأة الشرقية لينسج ...
Dearborn Open Mic – Rewa Zeinati recites Permanent Resident 4-17-2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ApdrOy4rxk Rewa is the founder of Sukoon. Sukoon is an independent, online literary journal, publishing Arab-themed art and literature in English, by established and emerging artists, poets, and writers of short stories and personal essays. Writers need not be Arab nor of Arab origin, but all writing must reflect the diversity and richness of the ...
Dearborn Open Mic – Ali Al Arithy reading “Air”
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Dearborn Open Mic English launches with a Big Bang
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المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن يقدم الشاعر ياسر سعد في عيد الحب
تقديم الدكتور حسن بزي للشاعر ياسر سعد:ـ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISDRGXyo__g القصيدة الأولى:ـ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GAEpEgp2vE القصيدة الثانية:ـ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz58msppIL0
المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن – علي السندي يقرأ مجموعة من أشعاره
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Dearborn Open Mic – Wissam Charafeddine Reading “Fragments”, “You Ask Me”, and “hi”
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Community and National Activist, Mohammed Cherri Recites “A Tribute to The Water Warrior” in DOM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUc3kQnPAYs
Professor Elsaegh: Poeticality is Needed Even in Your House
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2NOUbcVc_A
Reoun recites “Mother” and “Company Car” in Dearborn Open Mic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rOB73hvjac https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbHvjJuTbs8
Dearborn Open Mic – Samar Kassem – Akzam 3ala Ahram (Midgets on Pyramids)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zbV2kwzgA4
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
Dearborn Open Mic: Mohamad Hammoud Recites “The Yellow Flag”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU9gkEoXMAM
Nabil Hammoud Recites His Poem About Ahd Altamimi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcyHqSs1PFQ
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
If You Know by Wissam Charafeddine in Dearborn Open Mic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK_Bv6nvDzs
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 ...
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