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Dearborn is one of Michigan’s most diverse cities and four years ago, the city appointed a new police chief that residents said reflected this growing diversity.
Born to an Egyptian father and Albanian mother, Issa Shahin has over 25-years of experience with the Dearborn Police, having joined department at age 24.
https://youtu.be/sZ3wFYGPBqo?si=Uj1WMDjheRAdA5u7
#michigan #usa #history #heritage #culture #news #community #education #art #media
Back in 2019, Jessica Meir and Christina Koch made history by conducting the first ever all-female spacewalk on the International Space Station. But did you know, Jessica Meir's father was born in Baghdad?
Less than a year after the first all-female space walk, Jessica Meir sent this broadcast from the International Space Station to children across Baghdad and to those being supported by the Iraqi Children Foundation ❤️
What does it mean to go first? Dearborn in Michigan is home to one of the largest Middle Eastern communities in the USA. In 2022, Dearborn also appointed its first Arab American Muslim police chief.
But looking back to 2016, Amal Chammout became the first uniformed officer of the Dearborn Police Department to wear a hijab while out on patrol. This attracted the attention of Al-Jazeera.
https://youtu.be/65j5pLVUlSQ?si=4DVDmgvkgiXfaHkZ
#usa #news #aljazeera #uk #books #education #art #photography #media #police
According to some reports, there are over 100,000 Yemenis living in the United States and they are mostly located in New York, Michigan and in Northern California.
As CBS highlighted 9 years ago, of 36,000 NYPD officers, there were around 1,000 officers who identified as Muslim and Captain Jamiel Altaheri was one of them.
But what happens when worlds collide and global affairs impact on local lives?
https://youtu.be/9AZMdSSgLcg?si=6GRTO9CFz511hGhT
#usa #police #newyork #yemen #news #media #middleeast #europe #uk
On Monday, the BBC reported that in London, a Moroccan Jewish celebration called a Mimouna was held. It's a uniquely Moroccan Jewish celebration marking the end of Passover.
Moroccan Jews have a long history and Stephanie Laurent decided to organise this celebration in London, where "conversations drift between Moroccan Arabic, English and French".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c895kxzzlkvo
#london #history #france #morocco #culture #usa #manchester #education #bbc #news #europe
Back in February, Manchester University announced that the John Rylands Library’s Arabic manuscripts collection is now available for the public to view online.
The Library’s manuscript collection covers around 1,000 years of history and explores a range of subjects. Though most of the collection is Islamic, it also features Christian religious texts.
#manchester #education #arabic #middleeast #history #uk #europe #usa #books #religion
Items from The John Rylands Library’s Arabic manuscripts collection are available online for the first time via our Manchester Digital Collections (MDC) platform. Explore fully digitised copies of Quranic manuscripts, in particular a 14-volume trilingual muṣḥaf (written copy of the Qur’an, Arabic MSS 760-773), as well as codices containi...
Last week, NASA shared an exchange between Artemis II Mission Specialist Christina Koch and NASA astronaut Jessica Meir, who as the BBC report, is currently spending eight-months on the International Space Station.
Back in October 2019, Christina Koch and Jessica Meir conducted the first ever all-female spacewalk on the ISS to replace a faulty battery on the Space Station. Keep your heads raised and always look up 💞
#news #usa #uk #europe #middleeast #nasa #food #peace #science #books
In the documentary 'A Thousand and One Journeys: The Arab American Experience', the Kurzum family in Pittsburgh contributed this old footage of their family from previous generations.
It's incredible just watching, as it provides a fascinating insight into the lives of ordinary Arab Americans. It's a stark contrast to how people are often presented by both politicians and the media.
https://youtu.be/y53O2S8bzvI?si=DEXvXBbmvyGv-bVZ
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I can only wonder what it would have been like arriving in America in 1905? I also wonder what it would have been like, being an American of Middle Eastern heritage and fighting in Europe during World War Two? But what comes next when the rest is history🤔🤔🤔
https://youtu.be/xWwmGTGbEro?si=TtgHN-om3NqWRDkv
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Just this week, I had a wonderful conversation with my Niece, who as part of her university studies in Bolton, is going to dig deep into her Mesopotamian heritage by exploring the Zoroastrian and Yazidi religions.
I'm really pleased as it goes beyond the British and French Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916 and establishes a direct link to her own history, which is equally interwoven with religions like Christianity, Judaism and Mandaeism.
