"Arab Americans have somehow been written out of the history of the United States," said Anan Ameri, director of the new Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. She talked with interviewer Sean Barlow on a broadcast of Afropop Worldwide about the museum, the heart of which is in the personal stories of Arab Americans. Artist Bader Omar Al-Dafa, ambassador from Qatar, spoke at the museum opening, said Barlow, deploring the negative image of Arabs and Muslims in the media after 9/11. "Part of the message of this Museum," A-Dafa said, "is really to give the American people a different picture about the achievements of Arab Americans. ... Through culture, through painting, through music ... the closer we get together, the better we will understand each other." [LINK]