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On April 11, 2015, Brennan married Yado Yakub, a Syrian-American [60] attorney who is a judge advocate in the United States Marine Corps. [61] [62] [63] During an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on April 30, 2018, Brennan announced she was pregnant with their first child, a boy who was born on September 11, 2018. [64]
Most Syrians reside in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, and a smaller number in Sharjah. In addition to Arabic, most Syrians speak English fluently and a smaller number of them speak French and other languages. Before the 2011 crisis, Syria was the first Arab destination for UAE citizens who considered it home. [2] Most are Sunni Muslims and Christians.
The United States has an embassy in Abu Dhabi and a consulate-general in Dubai which provide services to American citizens. There are also expatriate and business organizations, such as the American Women's Association in Dubai, [4] the American Women's Network of Abu Dhabi [5] an American Chamber of Commerce Abu Dhabi [6] and an American Business Council of Dubai and the Northern Emirates.
Before the 2011 crisis, Syria was the first Arab destination for UAE citizens who considered it home. [49] The Syrian population in the UAE is over 242,000. [50] Most of them are Sunni Muslims and Christians. Many of them are coupled to non-Arabs.
Arab American leaders gathered in Troy to hear former Ambassador Richard Grenell and Michael Boulos, a Trump son-in-law of Lebanese descent.
The prospect that the dour, stern Syrian leader would live forever was a source of dark humor for many of my Syrian friends when I lived and worked in Aleppo in the late 1980s and early 1990s ...
Before being imprisoned by the woman, the victims were kept as slaves by different male ISIS members, living “in very meagre conditions without food and clean water,” according to the court.
Syrian Americans have a different occupational distribution than all Americans. According to the 2000 census, 42% of the Syrian Americans worked in management and professional occupations, compared with 34% of their counterparts in the total population; additionally, more Syrian Americans worked in sales than all American workers. [55]