Sam Issa

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In this Jan. 25, 2017 photo, Sam Issa, right, owner of Sam's Cafe, talks to a customer on at his restaurant in Champaign, Ill. Sam has been in business here for 29 years, having purchased the cafe in December 1987. Born Bassam Issa, "It's pronounced like you're saying 'Bus and Sam,' " he explains, in the Christian town of Hamat, Lebanon. Sam came to the United States with very little in the late 1970s to study business at Indiana State University. (Marcus Jackson/The News-Gazette via AP )