Abdullah H. Hammoud, the mayor of Dearborn, Michigan, recently announced that he had called for an immediate increase in police presence at the city’s major infrastructure points and places of worship. Hammoud, Dearborn’s inaugural Arab American mayor, who was elected in 2021, unequivocally denounced the opinion piece as “Islamophobic, Anti-Arab, and blatantly racist.” In a statement to CNN, he said: …
Thousands of lives changed forever when powerful earthquakes hit Turkey and Syria last year, and mental scars remain. Abdulghani’s husband did not survive the first magnitude 7.8 earthquake, followed by a second magnitude 7.6 one later in the day and hundreds of aftershocks, that killed more than 50,000 people in southeastern Turkey and northern Syria on February 6 last year. …
