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AKRAM NAMOU
President and CEO
A&M Hospitality Services Inc.
Southfield
Country of origin: Iraq
When and why he came to the U.S.: Came in 1980 to pursue economic opportunity and escape religious persecution and political turmoil.
Why he is an American Dreamer: Owns 10 full-service hotels and 70 limited-service and extended-stay hotels collectively employing more than 2,500 people.
Akram Namou, 64, left Iraq in 1972 to do a chartered accountancy apprenticeship in England.
He'd been educated by American Jesuits at Al-Hikma University in Baghdad and held a bachelor's degree in business...