The Arab American News
TypeWeekly newspaper
PublisherOsama Siblani
Founded1984
LanguageEnglish, Arabic
HeadquartersDearborn, Michigan
ISSN1930-9619
Websitewww.arabamericannews.com

The Arab American News (Arabic: صدى الوطن) is a weekly bilingual newspaper representing Arab Americans published in Dearborn, Michigan, USA in Greater Detroit.[1] It began publishing on 7 September 1984 and its publisher is Lebanese-born Osama Siblani.[2] It is believed to be the oldest and largest Arab American newspaper.[3]

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.[4]

Osama Sibliani

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.[5]

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.[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "About Us Archived 2013-05-20 at the Wayback Machine." The Arab American News. Retrieved on September 22, 2013.
  2. ↑ "Osama Siblani & The Arab American News". Bloomberg.com. 15 January 2007.
  3. ↑ Hagopian, Elaine C. (June 2004). Civil Rights In Peril: The Targeting of Arabs and Muslims. Pluto Press. p. 100. ISBN 978-0-7453-2264-3. Retrieved 28 June 2021.
  4. ↑ "Exhibit on Ethnic Media Tells Arab American News' Story - New America Media". newamericamedia.org. Retrieved 2018-09-19.
  5. ↑ "Arab American News founder Siblani a Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame inductee". Crain's Detroit Business. 19 April 2013. Retrieved 2018-09-17.
  6. ↑ University, Wayne State (2018-05-15). "A Pulitzer Prize-Winner and a New-Media Pioneer are Honored at Wayne State's 10th Annual Helen Thomas Awards". Newsroom. Retrieved 2018-09-17.


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