The Arab American News The Arab American News The Arab American News () is a weekly bilingual newspaper representing Arab Americans published in Dearborn, Michigan, USA in Greater Detroit. It began publishing on 7 September 1984 and its publisher is Lebanese-born Osama Siblani. The Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism estimated in 2009 that the paper has an “unaudited circulation of 30,000 in the Detroit area." 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. Siblani himself was inducted into the Michigan Journalism
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