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In Tough Job Market, Joseph and Faris Gessese Find Opportunity For Business

News Room — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:11:09 +0000

Above: Joseph and Faris Gessese’s Columbus, Ohio, based
job search website has been revamped to serve all 50 states.

Tadias Magazine
By Tadias Staff

Published: Monday, March 1, 2010

New York (Tadias) – Despite reports of better job prospects in 2010, it’s still a tough job market out there.

According to CNN: “New college graduates had 40% fewer job prospects (in 2009), a new report shows. And the outlook for 2010, while better, is still not very promising.”

However, for Ethiopian-American entrepreneurs Joseph and Faris Gessese, who were highlighted by NBC last year for assisting job seekers around Central Ohio, the down economy presents an opportunity for business.

Their original website OhioStateList.com, featuring resume builder and Video locator connecting prospective employees and employers, has been renamed and retooled to include regions beyond the Midwest.

“The new name is MyStateList.com, ” Eyaluta Seifu, Director of Public Relation for the website said. “And it has been expanded to service all 50 states.”

Joseph Gessese, who has a day job working on mortgages, told NBC 4‘s Marcus Thorpe that he knows many people who have lost their jobs and he hopes his website will become one-stop-shop for job seekers.

“You want to do something about it,“ Gessese said.

Watch Joseph and Faris Gesses on NBC4

US envoy pledges to press Ethiopia on rights

News Room — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:30:19 +0000

Above: Donald Booth, President Barack Obama’s nominee to
be next US ambassador to Ethiopia promised to be forward-
leaning on Human Rights.

AFP
Feb 2, 2010
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s nominee to be the next US ambassador to Ethiopia pledged on Tuesday to press the government in Addis Ababa to improve human rights, free political prisoners and make upcoming elections fair. Donald Booth said the United States had “complex interests” in Ethiopia, and that the two nations, while differing in tactics, saw largely eye-to-eye on the need to bring stability and prevent an Islamist takeover of Somalia. Read More.

Video: Beer Run Ends with Innocent Driver’s Death

News Room — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:33:44 +0000

MyFox — Police say it all started with a beer run and ended
with the death of an innocent driver, identified as 27-year-
old Abel Abebe, an ASU student from Ethiopia.

FOXNews: Food 101 – Dishes of Ethiopian Cuisine From New York’s Queen of Sheba

News Room — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:45:03 +0000

Above: FOX’s Food 101 features New York’s Queen of Sheba
Ethiopian restaurant located in midtown, Manhattan.

Tadias Magazine
By Tadias Staff

Published: Saturday, January 30, 2010

New York (Tadias) – FoxNews.com’s Diane Macedo explores how to prepare authentic Ethiopian cuisine at New York’s Queen of Sheba restaurant.

The eatery was also one of thirty-three favorite restaurants of Voice food critic Robert Sietsema, author of Secret New York. Sietsema has reviewed more than 2,000 restaurants in the last 14 years.

Among those dishing out delicious and eclectic cuisine at last year’s second Choice Eats tasting event organized by The Village Voice, was the staff of Queen of Sheba, serving injera rolls with fillings of either spicy lentil or beef sauces. Eager tasters waited patiently in rows to pick up the wraps. In it’s description of the Queen of Sheba restaurant, the event publication wrote: “New York finally has its own Queen of Sheba, providing intriguing and sometimes fiery spice combinations.”

Diane Macedo explores the unique flavors of Ethiopian cuisine

Related Video from Tadias: QS at Choice Eats 2009

State of the Union: Obama Calls Jobs ‘Number One Focus’

News Room — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:30:08 +0000

Above: President Obama said Wednesday night that leaders in
Washington face a “deficit of trust,” as he used his first State
of the Union address to try to restore public confidence in his
administration. (NYT)

President Obama says the worst of the storm has passed
WATCH: Learn more at Whitehouse.gov

VIDEO: Obama AD Subtracted

State of the Union: President Obama says he has never been
more hopeful about America

Obama: Washington is facing a “deficit of trust,”

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Would Martin Luther King Jr. support Obama?

News Room — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:03:18 +0000

Above: On Martin Luther King Jr. Day a year after the first
African-American president took office, Americans appear
to have mixed views about the impact of President Obama’s
election on race relations. (The Christian Science Monitor)

Ten Martin Luther King Jr. quotes

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Video: Would MLK support Obama?

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New Coffee Shop to Open in Anacostia

News Room — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:31:42 +0000

FOX: During the biggest recession since the Great Depression,
a local Ethiopian family is bucking the trend. They are poised…
to open a new coffee shop. And they’re choosing to do it in the
poorest neighborhood in Washington, D.C.: Anacostia.

Reid: Sorry for ‘Negro’ remark about Obama

News Room — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:21:18 +0000

Above: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says his comment
about Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential bid as “light
skinned” and “with no Negro dialect” was “a poor choice of
words.” (Mike Theiler / EPA file)

Video: Reid to Obama: Sorry for ‘no Negro Dialect’ Remark

Video: RNC chair Steele goes after Reid

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Zewdy’s Video Goes Viral on YouTube

News Room — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:31:51 +0000

Above: A homemade video by Zewdy, a talented young artist
from New York City is garnering growing attention on YouTube.

Tadias Magazine
Arts & Entertainment News

Published: Friday, January 8, 2010

New York (Tadias) – We recently received several emails directing our attention to a music video by a multicultural artist named Zewdy, born in New York City and of Ethiopian and Eritrean heritage.

Partly owing to the young lady’s savvy use of social networking sites, such as Twitter and Facebook, the homemade clip is fast becoming an online sensation. In a sign consistent with viral videos on YouTube, Zewdi has already received over 15, 000 hits in a span of only six days.

“This is the great promise of YouTube: Your video can soar in popularity through sheer word-of mouth—or rather, click-of-mouth—until eventually people are making T-shirts about it,” writes Chris Wilson, who tracked the traffic trends of more than 10,000 YouTube videos for an investigative article published on Slate Magazine. “I crunched the numbers to find out what percentage of YouTube videos hit it big, cracking even 10,000 or 100,000 views. The results: You might have better odds playing the lottery than of becoming a viral video sensation.”

After one month of observation, only twenty five of Wilson’s ten thousand videos made the high mark: “A mere 25, 0.3 percent, had more than 10,000 views,” he observes. “Meanwhile, 65 percent of videos failed to break 50 views; 2.8 percent had zero views.” Slate Magazine’s advice: Don’t bet your career on launching your show biz on YouTube.

But the vibrant Zewdy is beating the odds. Here is the video in which she celebrates her multicultural background through music and dance.

Video: Zewdy – Into the Night

Melkam Genna (Merry Christmas) To Our Readers!

News Room — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:29:42 +0000

Above: Ethiopians and other Orthodox Christians who follow
the Julian calendar celebrate Genna (Christmas) today.

Tadias Magazine
Editor’s Note

Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2009

New York (Tadias) – We would like to wish a very merry Christmas (Melkam Genna) to all our readers!

The following is an excerpt from an article entitled “How the Story of Christmas Saved Islam.” It was published on HuffingtonPost.com on Christmas day 2009. The writer shares the story of an Ethiopian Christian King and his decision to grant refuge to the family of the Prophet Mohammad, who arrived in ancient Ethiopia while fleeing from their pagan persecutors. The piece by author and Hollywood filmmaker Kamran Pasha highlights Ethiopia’s historic role in providing sanctuary for the earliest Muslims. We thought we would share it with you in celebration of Genna!

How the Story of Christmas Saved Islam
Kamran Pasha (HuffingtonPost.com)

And our Christmas story begins with that first emigration, to the Christian kingdom of Abyssinia, in modern day Ethiopia.

In 615 C.E., five years after the prophet’s first vision of Gabriel, persecution of the Muslims had become a life-and-death matter. A Muslim woman named Sumaya, the first martyr of Islam, had been publicly murdered by a Meccan tribal chief. The weakest members of the community, such as the African slave Bilal, were subjected to torture. And the Arab chieftains were coming together to proclaim a ban of trade with the Muslims, prohibiting citizens of Mecca from providing food and medicine to members of the new movement.

Facing the very real possibility of extinction, a small group of Muslims led by the Prophet’s daughter Ruqayya and his son-in-law Uthman, escaped Meccan patrols and managed to get to the Red Sea, where they fled to Abyssinia by boat. They sought the protection of the Negus, the Christian king who had a reputation for justice. Read more.

Cover image: The Saint Yared Choir of D.C (Tadias File Photo)