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Today on Buffalo, What's Next?, we hear from Akec (A-ketch) Aguer of the Nile Restaurant on Grant Street inside the now burnt and temporarily shut down West Side Bazaar. He fled South Sudan as a refugee before eventually making Buffalo home. Also on the program Caroline Welch executive director of WEDI, the non-profit that runs the bazaar, and works with new Americans to ensure that all residents of Western New York can succeed and thrive in a culturally inclusive community.
The American South is home to some of the most diverse food cultures in the world. Von Diaz hits the road to discover the region's many flavors and communities.
Richard Breaux is an Associate Professor of Ethnic & Racial Studies at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. He is A 78 RPM record collector and the creator of “Midwest Mahjar: The Recorded Sounds of the Syrian/Lebanese Diaspora at 78 RPM,” a blog that focuses on musicians of Arab descent in the United States before 1961. This article is part of SyriaUntold’s ongoing on Syrian music. Walk down Washington Street in Lower Manhattan between the Battery Parking Garage and Albany Street, and you’ll see virtually no signs that this area was once home to one of the largest communities of Syrians in the United States.