TechTown Mentor Celebrates 1st Thanksgiving as an American Citizen
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When 18-year-old Faris Alami arrived in America in 1990, he was fleeing Sadam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait. Faris and his family were stateless Palestinians residing in a Kuwaiti border town.
Fortunately, he was welcomed to America by a cousin residing in Arizona.
"That Thanksgiving, everything was very strange to me" Faris says. "I couldn't make sense of a country that dedicated..."
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