Saleh credits a lot of the business’ success — and their recent Immigrant Welcome Award for business leadership — to the novelty of a shawarma restaurant in Champaign-Urbana.
Two weeks from Saturday, the C-U Immigration Forum will hand out the 10th edition of its Immigrant Welcome Awards in a ceremony at the Urbana Free Library.
"Because I am a book lover, I started underlining every sentence of every novel I read, to say that love is love regardless of the gender of the two parties! How many times have my eyes chased what defends my gender identity and allows me to love the girl who bewitched me,' says writer and artist Ward Zaraa in this text. He recounts his experience of the queer approach to life and literature through two texts, one by Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani and the other by nomadic playwright Saadallah Wannous.