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The Arab American News. The Dearborn Independent. John D. Dingell Transit Center. Ford Airport Greenfield Village station. This list is incomplete. About 60 percent of the people of Dearborn are of Arab descent. And in the entire Detroit area, more than , people are Arab American.
Dearborn began to attract Arab immigrants in the s, when Henry Ford opened the Rouge car factory in the city. Auto industry jobs drew many workers from Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen. In later decades, the city had an influx of Palestinians and Iraqis. These people built a thriving and diverse Arab American community in Dearborn, a kind of Chinatown with Arabic script.
The restaurants, in particular, attracted many visitors to the city, for the food in Dearborn—then and now—has a well-deserved reputation for excellence. The terrorist attacks of September 11, , made life more difficult for many residents of Dearborn.
Some people received letters from the U. Nationally, much tighter controls were imposed on immigrants coming from Arab and Muslim countries, which affected those who hoped their relatives could join them in the U. And then an idiot from Texas showed up in the city and wanted to burn a Koran, sparking international controversy. To combat the growing distrust and prejudice against Arab Americans throughout the country, the Dearborn community raised money for a project that had actually been on their wish list for some time: the Arab American National Museum.
This beautifully designed building, which opened in , explores the rich and varied cultures, history and traditions of the Arab World and the people who trace their heritage there. Youssef began by showing us exhibits tracing the origins of Arab culture and its many contributions to the world. Between the ninth and seventeenth centuries, for example, Arab scholars preserved the ancient knowledge of the previous civilizations of Persia, India, Greece, and Rome.
Another display described the intertwined origins of the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic faiths, all of which took root in the same small corner of the world we are all cousins on the same family tree. Pointing to 22 nations spread across Africa and Asia, Youssef described their uniting characteristics: all have Arabic as their main language, all are members of the Arab League of Nations, and all have common cultural traditions and a shared history.
Thus Iraq is an Arab nation, but Persian-speaking Iran is not. Upstairs, other exhibits focused on the Arab American immigrant experience.
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