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A February 6, 1900 article in the Detroit Free Press stated that "Detroit's Colony of Syrians" included 75-100 people, mostly Lebanese Maronites. [12] The Lebanese worked as peddlers and shopkeepers. Henry Ford 's factories had 555 Syrian employees, including many recently-arrived Muslims, by 1916. 9,000 Arabic-speakers were among the residents ...
Iraq's prime minister heads to Michigan to meet Arab Americans at a tense time for the Middle East. ... home to the cities of Detroit and Dearborn, 7.8% of residents identified of Middle Eastern ...
Osama Siblani, publisher of the Arab American News in Dearborn, told the Detroit Free Press he was meeting Thursday with Julie Chavez Rodriguez, campaign manager for the Democratic ticket led by ...
In 2005 Highland Park Schools made plans to attract Arab and Muslim students resident in Detroit and Hamtramck. [26] Dr. Theresa Saunders, the superintendent of the school system, hired Yahya Alkebsi (Arabic: يحيى الكبسي), a Yemeni-American educator, as the district's Arab Muslim consultant. It added Arabic-speaking teachers and began ...
Historically, in Detroit, Scots who were in the trades focused on tool-making and practiced their trade in automobile plants. [1] As of 1951, about 2,500 Swiss people lived throughout various areas in the City of Detroit. Swiss people began coming to Detroit before 1900 and in 1920 to 1930 the peak Swiss immigration period occurred.
On Thursday evening, a source with knowledge of the meetings confirmed Rodriguez and others from the campaign met with Arab American and Muslim leaders as well as leaders from metro Detroit's ...
Garbi Schmidt of the Danish National Institute of Social Research wrote that Arab Detroit "is a book well worth reading". [11] Schmidt argued that in some cases the authors did not adequately explain their perspectives and choices of subjects, and he also stated that the book should have explored inter-ethnic relations within the Muslim community.
The concentration of those residents in the outskirts of Detroit has led to multiple visits to the area from officials engaged in Middle Eastern relations. Amos Hochstein, a senior adviser to Biden, traveled to metro Detroit in March to meet with Lebanese Americans and discuss efforts to prevent the conflict from expanding along Israel’s ...