Jeff Karoub writes:
I’m half-Arab, but maybe I should best be described as a Detroit Arab-American, 
because this is the place that helped to shape my family and my family helped shape.
Like any family of mixed ancestry, traditions have been blended and blunted, but being in a place with such a large, diverse population with roots in the Middle East has allowed us to keep things like the food front-and-center in our lives.
I’m grateful for being part of a family that is open to many cultural and religious traditions and I think we are stronger for it.
As my family’s 100th anniversary in the U.S. approached, I thought of its contribution to this place. My grandfather worked at Ford while he served as a Muslim minister and Arab-Muslim newspaper publisher. My father played French horn for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and so many classic Motown records.
All of it inspired a song I recently wrote called “Made by Motown.”
You can listen to Jeff’s song here.
