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What it means to be Arab American

Season 1, Ep. 3

In 2021, Joe Biden was the first president to recognize April as Arab American Heritage month on a federal level. 


Civic Influencers fellow Ruby Scupp and co-host Josie Cantelmo talk with Amani Attia, a professor in Pitt’s Department of Linguistics and Nasrin Nahnooch, a first-year law, criminal justice and society and psychology double major serving on the Middle Eastern North African Student Association board, to discuss the importance of Arab American heritage and the challenges this group faces.


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Audio edited by Sinéad McDevitt.


Music by FASSounds from Pixabay.

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