Monument Project: Muslim immigration to the Detroit suburbs

This article profiles Maha Mahajneh, a Palestinian-Israeli immigrant and CFO of ACCESS, an Arab social-service organization in Dearborn, Michigan. It discusses her experiences and the broader challenges faced by Arab Americans in the post-9/11 era, including heightened suspicion and discrimination.

“Arab Americans and the Automobile: Voices from the Factory” was a project conducted in 1999 by the Cultural Arts Department of the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS). The main objective of “Voices from the Factory” was to document, through oral testimonies, the history of the Detroit area’s Arab immigrants in the automobile industry.