Michigan has the second largest Middle Eastern and North African population in the U.S. after California, including the Arab-majority city of Dearborn at 54.5% MENA ancestry, mostly Arab.

Her career, meanwhile, has taken her to XP Music Futures in Riyadh, and Beirut’s Rap & Beyond festival, travels that have allowed her to uplift Afro-Arab storytelling on a global scale.Now, the ...

Michigan is celebrating Arab American Heritage Month in April. ... there are now 310,087 residents with Middle Eastern or North African ancestry, making up 3.1% of the population, ...