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A Look on Singapore’s Arab Street

By: Souria Dabbousi / Arab America Contributing Writer We all know of New York’s Chinatown and LA’s Little Tokyo but have you heard of Singapore’s Arab Street? This neighborhood in Singapore is well-known as a center for culture, cuisine, and entertainment. It is a cultural neighborhood that honors Singapore’s many ethnic groups. It got its … Continued

Singapore’s Arab Community Traces Ancestral Roots to Yemen

SOURCE: MY SALAAM BY: JOANNA TAN SINGAPORE: The first car to arrive in Tarim, a historic town in the Hadhramaut Valley of Yemen, was an American Studebaker. It had traveled across oceans and continents to get there — but not without the help of one prominent Arab family in Singapore. “Tarim’s first car was bought … Continued

The Arab and Mulit-Ethnic Influences in Singapore

By Habeeb Salloum/Contributing Writer “Singapore works because we have learned how to live together.  It’s how the nations of the world should get along.”  My Chinese taxi driver had nothing but praise for his tiny city-state.  He continued, “We have given every race and religion equality.  Our schools are mixed, but all students, besides their … Continued

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