Osama Siblani came to America as an immigrant from Lebanon with only $185 to his name.
“My parents sold everything to buy me a one-way ticket to come to the United States,” he says about his journey to a new life in 1976.
He went on to found the Arab American News, the nation’s largest Arab American publication in 1984.
Siblani says his success, “shows how great this country is,” but he also has faced discrimination and harassment because of his background and religion and an wave of post- September 11 Islamophobia.
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