The Broadway play is about a working class Syrian American waitress who through hard work "ascends" the social and economic ladder and becomes successful in the United States.
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Anas Allaf, Syrian American singer-songwriter, recording artist, guitarist and audio engineer
Salom Rizk (a.k.a. Sam Risk, b. 1909? in Ottoman Syria, d. 22 October 1973 in Silver Spring, Maryland) is a Syrian-American author, best known for his 1943 immigrant autobiography, Syrian Yankee, perhaps the best-known piece of Arab American literature in the middle part of the century.