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In the early 1900s, Lower Manhattan was home to Little Syria, then the epicenter of the Arabic-speaking community in the US. But today, most people have never heard of it. Syrian American rapper and poet Omar Offendum aims to change that with his hip-hop musical “Little Syria.” Meklit Hadero, host of the “Movement podcast,” talked with Offendum about the project.