It was really exciting to have this opportunity to speak with my father about what it was like for him to come to the United States from Syria at the age of 25. I hadn’t spent much time thinking about what it must be like to raise a child in a culture that is so vastly different from the one he grew up in. As a parent, that gives me a whole new perspective!

Listen to Ara Kasparian talk about life in Syria and what he thought about America when he first came here over 45 years ago.