(VOA) One of the largest and rapidly growing Muslim and Arab American communities in the United States lives and works in Dearborn, Michigan.
“Arabs are almost half of the city,” said Osama Siblani about his adopted hometown, a Detroit suburb of about 110,000 people that, among other things, is home to the Arab American National Museum and the offices of Lebanese-born Sibani’s Arab American News. “We are the oldest, the largest Arab American publication in the country.”
Since Siblani started the weekly bilingual publication in the 1980s, each election brought unique challenges for his growing community, many of them recent immigrants — and new U.S. citizens — just learning English.
“I came here in 1976, and I find some difficulty in writing and reading some of these proposals and understanding them,” he told VOA.
