{"id":1974,"date":"2019-01-19T21:36:45","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T18:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/?p=1974"},"modified":"2019-01-19T21:36:45","modified_gmt":"2019-01-19T18:36:45","slug":"nabih-ayad-elected-chairman-of-airport-authority-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/nabih-ayad-elected-chairman-of-airport-authority-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Nabih Ayad elected chairman of Airport Authority Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arab American civil rights attorney Nabih Ayad has been elected as the chairman of the Wayne County Airport Authority Board on Wednesday.<br \/>\nAyad who was first appointed to the board by former County Executive Bob Ficano in 2015 has a long history of community activism and promoting diversity and inclusion.<br \/>\nHe will now be the head of the board of the authority, which oversees the international Detroit Metro Airport.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Authority is responsible for the management and operation of Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport and Willow Run Airport &#8211; including the power to plan, promote, extend, maintain, acquire, purchase, construct, improve, repair, enlarge, and operate both Airports,\u201d according to its website.<br \/>\nThe board, which manages the authority consists of seven members, appointed by elected officials, including the county executive, governor and the Wayne County Commission.<br \/>\nAyad, 48, is a private lawyer who focuses on civil rights issues, including federal abuse of Arab Americans\u2019 civil rights, discrimination and police brutality. He is the founder of the Arab American Civil Rights League (ACRL).<br \/>\nHe previously served on the Michigan Civil Rights Commission and the Michigan\u2019s Advisory Council on Arab and Chaldean American Affairs.<br \/>\nAyad serves on the airport board, alongside Wayne County Commissioner Al Haidous, who is also Arab American.<\/p>\n<div class='clear '><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arab American civil rights attorney Nabih Ayad has been elected as the chairman of the Wayne County Airport Authority Board on Wednesday. Ayad who was first appointed to the board by former County Executive Bob Ficano in 2015 has a long history of community activism and promoting diversity and inclusion. He will now be the [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1976,"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974\/revisions\/1976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}