Diane Rehm lacked a college education but became a national radio host of The Diane Rehm Show.

Robby Ameen was born to Lebanese-American parents but has made a career as one of the top Afro-Cuban Jazz drummers in the world.

Rabih Dow was blinded by an explosion during the Lebanese Civil War and found his life’s work rehabilitating newly blind people at the Carroll Center for the Blind outside Boston.