Charles Khalil Alawan papers 1940-2001

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Charles Khalil Alawan papers 1940-2001

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Charles Khalil Alawan is a leader in the Arab American and American Muslim community of Southeastern Michigan, as well as a leader of the Michigan Republican Party. The collection documents the development of the Islamic Center of America, Dearborn, Mich., of which Alawan is a founding member, as well as other community activities.

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Charles Khalil Alawan was born in Detroit in 1930, the son of Lebanese immigrants. He earned an engineering degree from Wayne University and served in the U.S. Army for six years in the 1950s. He became a successful businessman, working for Altair Industries, a Brighton, Mich., manufacturer, and later for Ansar Communications, a marketing firm. During the 1950s Alawan was part of a group of young men in the Dearborn area who helped found what became the Islamic Center of...