15 years after the Cronulla riots, Jad's Lebanese restaurant is now a local favourite

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Jad Nakhle and his family opened a Lebanese restaurant in the heart of Cronulla seven years ago.
They called it
Yalla Sawa - Arabic for ‘come together’ - and Jad says that’s what the community has done since day one. 
“We said, ‘Look, it's all going to be about sharing, it's all going to be about people getting together’,” he tells SBS News.
“As soon as we opened the doors, we were busy. And we were busy for a long time. A lot of the locals love this place. They tell a lot of people about it. Like, 'if you go to Cronulla, you've got to go to Yalla Sawa’.”

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