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FROM THE EDITOR PUBLISHED BY Chaldean News, LLC Chaldean Community Foundation Martin Manna EDITORIAL EDITOR IN CHIEF Sarah Kittle CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Cal Abbo Valene Ayar Sarah Kittle Dr. Adhid Miri Rodd Monts Weam Namou Paul Natinsky Steve Stein ART & PRODUCTION CREATIVE DIRECTOR Alex Lumelsky with SKY Creative GRAPHIC DESIGNER Zina Lumelsky with SKY Creative PHOTOGRAPHERS Matthew Gordon Nico Salgado Wilson Sarkis SALES Interlink Media Sana Navarrette CLASSIFIEDS Sana Navarrette Subscriptions: per year CONTACT INFORMATION Story ideas: edit@chaldeannews.com Advertisements: ads@chaldeannews.com Subscription and all other inquiries: info@chaldeannews.com Chaldean News 30095 Northwestern Hwy, Suite 101 Farmington Hills, MI 48334 www.chaldeannews.com Phone: (248) 851-8600 Publication: The Chaldean News (P-6); Published monthly; Issue Date: November 2022 Subscriptions: 12 months, . Publication Address: 30095 Northwestern Hwy., Suite 101, Farmington Hills, MI 48334; Permit to mail at periodicals postage rates is on file at Farmington Hills Post Office Postmaster: Send address changes to “The Chaldean News 30095 Northwestern Hwy., Suite 101, Farmington Hills, MI 48334” Working for the Future The weather is cooling off, but the political arena in the midterm elections just keeps getting hotter. With highly contested seats opening up in Michigan, including the governor’s, our legislative lineup may look a whole lot different come January. The Chaldean Chamber’s Business Luncheon gave us a taste of debate, with panelists from either side of the political aisle highlighting their own party’s achievements and casting blame for the things that didn’t get done in the last term. Finger pointing and excuses are all too common in politics, and countries overseas are not immune. Political unrest in the Middle SARAH KITTLE EDITOR East is now status quo but leadership in the Chaldean American community is taking steps to ease the hardship and enable individuals to succeed, both professionally and personally, in the villages they have left in the Nineveh Plain. Iraq isn’t the only place facing hardship. Our state’s woes won’t end with the election. All across the country, there’s an affordable housing crisis unfolding and wreaking havoc on the industry. But it’s not all bad news. The close electoral races only mean our voices are being heard. Being heard or listened to is something that everyone desires, from the candidates to the voters. Recently Southfield gas station owners had a desire to be heard when they received ordinance violation notices from the city asking them to bring their outside storage inside. Although the code prohibiting storage of propane tanks and ice coolers has apparently been in place for years, it had never been enforced. One earlier attempt to enforce the code had been tabled at the city council level, but this time, store owners turned to the Chaldean Chamber for help. Our reengaged CNTV crew headed by Cal Abbo and Michael Nafso covered the story. Our cover story features a much broader type of assistance, from helping set up policing agents in Iraq to igniting the local economy, helping entrepreneurs, and creating a brand name, “Made in Nineveh.” We are excited to bring you more of that in the coming months, with makers like Maryam Qasha who is featured in this month’s Economics and Enterprise section for her homemade rosaries. Baqofa is the village in the frame this month; a tiny one-kilometer town just north of Mosul. It’s amazing how similar these villages all looked to my untrained eye when we began spotlighting them, and how different and unique they all seem now! Hopefully, my eyes weren’t the only ones opened by Political unrest in the Middle East is now status quo but leadership in the Chaldean American community is taking steps to ease the hardship. the ongoing photo essay. Playwright Heather Raffo hopes to open some eyes with her play, “Noura,” about a middle-class Chaldean wife and mother living in New York. The play, workshopped in Dearborn, details the struggles of interfaith relationships and the constant battle to belong but not become like everyone else. In this issue, Family Time showcases some new holiday happenings that may become future family traditions, we celebrate an extraordinary basketball coach, and Dr. Miri teaches us a little bit about making Mesopotamian music. Although our archival photo is magnificent and we hope for many more submissions like it, we are firmly entrenched in the future, whatever that holds. The very best to you! Sarah Kittle Editor in Chief Attorney Alexander R. 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