My place of employment this past summer, the Arab American National Museum, is the subject of an impressive review in today's New York Times. Congratulations, folks!
The museum, in Dearborn, Michigan, opened in May and has already become a center for the Arab American community nation-wide. During my two-and-a-half-month stint there, groups from as far away as upstate New York and California came for tours. High schoolers from Dearborn regularly hung out at the Museum's library. Cultural events hosted on the museum's rooftop terrace attracted revelers from all around the Detroit metropolitian area. Clearly, the museum fills an important need -- a place for the growing and increasingly recognized (and formerly ignored) Arab-American community to come together to both remember the past and look toward the future.
The museum, in Dearborn, Michigan, opened in May and has already become a center for the Arab American community nation-wide. During my two-and-a-half-month stint there, groups from as far away as upstate New York and California came for tours. High schoolers from Dearborn regularly hung out at the Museum's library. Cultural events hosted on the museum's rooftop terrace attracted revelers from all around the Detroit metropolitian area. Clearly, the museum fills an important need -- a place for the growing and increasingly recognized (and formerly ignored) Arab-American community to come together to both remember the past and look toward the future.
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