The Arab American News
{{Short description|Bilingual newspaper}}
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| publisher = Osama Siblani
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| foundation = 1984
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| language = Arabic, English
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| headquarters = Dearborn, Michigan
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| ISSN = 1930-9619
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| website = {{URL|https://sadaalwatan.com/}} (Arabic)
{{URL|https://arabamericannews.com/}} (English)
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The Arab American News ({{langx|ar|صدى الوطن}}) is a weekly bilingual newspaper representing Arab Americans published in Dearborn, Michigan, USA in Greater Detroit."[http://www.arabamericannews.com/news/footer/about.html About Us] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130520063117/http://www.arabamericannews.com/news/footer/about.html |date=2013-05-20 }}." The Arab American News. Retrieved on September 22, 2013. It began publishing on 7 September 1984 and its publisher is Lebanese-born Osama Siblani.{{Cite news|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2007-01-14/theyre-muslims-and-yankees-too|title=Osama Siblani & The Arab American News|newspaper=Bloomberg.com|date=15 January 2007|language=en}} It is believed to be the oldest and largest Arab-American newspaper.{{cite book |last1=Hagopian |first1=Elaine C. |title=Civil Rights In Peril: The Targeting of Arabs and Muslims |date=June 2004 |publisher=Pluto Press |isbn=978-0-7453-2264-3 |page=100 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P5x6Qu46dagC&dq=%22Osama+Siblani%22&pg=PA100 |access-date=28 June 2021 |language=en}}
In 2014, The Arab American News was one of the ethnic media outlets featured in an exhibit called “One Nation With News for All” at the Newseum in Washington, D.C.{{Cite web|url=http://newamericamedia.org/trending/2014/05/exhibit-on-ethnic-media-tells-arab-american-news-story.php|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170207120437/http://newamericamedia.org/trending/2014/05/exhibit-on-ethnic-media-tells-arab-american-news-story.php|url-status=usurped|archive-date=February 7, 2017|title=Exhibit on Ethnic Media Tells Arab American News' Story - New America Media|website=newamericamedia.org|language=en|access-date=2018-09-19}}
Osama Siblani
Siblani was inducted into the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame in April 2013. He is the first to be inducted from an ethnic media outlet, and the second Arab American, after the induction of the late Helen Thomas in 1993.{{Cite web|url=http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20130419/NEWS/130419790/arab-american-news-founder-siblani-a-michigan-journalism-hall-of|title=Arab American News founder Siblani a Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame inductee|website=Crain's Detroit Business|date=19 April 2013|language=en|access-date=2018-09-17}}
Siblani is also the recipient of the “Spirit of Diversity in Journalism” award from Wayne State University, during the 10th Annual Helen Thomas Awards on April 16, 2010.{{Cite news|url=https://newsroom.wayne.edu/news/2010/03/15/a-pulitzer-prize-winner-and-a-new-media-pioneer-are-honored-at-wayne-states-10th-annual-helen-thomas-awards-3628|title=A Pulitzer Prize-Winner and a New-Media Pioneer are Honored at Wayne State's 10th Annual Helen Thomas Awards|last=University|first=Wayne State|date=2018-05-15|work=Newsroom|access-date=2018-09-17|language=en}}
See also
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References
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External links
- [http://www.arabamericannews.com/ The Arab American News]
{{Dearborn, Michigan}}
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Category:Newspapers published in Michigan
Category:Arabic-language newspapers published in the United States
Category:Arab-American culture in Michigan
Category:Newspapers established in 1984
Category:1984 establishments in Michigan
Category:Non-English-language newspapers published in Michigan
Category:Arab and Islamic culture in Dearborn, Michigan
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