Bowman Hills holds SPORTS: annual Tarheels topple fundraiser: Wildcats to reach Page 8 Final Four: Page 9 162nd YEAR • No. 281 16 PAGES • 50¢ CLEVELAND, TN 37311 THE CITY WITH SPIRIT MONDAY, MARCH 27, 2017 Syrian refugee living American Dream Yassin Terou came with no job, $300 in credit By ALLEN MINCEY “And if you don’t want to love me, I will That is also the name of a You Tube video
[email protected] still love you. We can talk and get con- created by friends that details his travails in nected and if we get together, we can all starting his business and living in Knoxville. Yassin Terou is living the American Dream, be better.” “I call this my second chance at life,” Terou but it took some time to become acclimated to Yassin Terou said. life in the United States with his family. Today, Terou spoke Sunday at the Theology on Tap meeting. Theology on Tap exists to promote he owns a restaurant in Knoxville, with plans done.” charitable and mature Christian dialogue about to start a second business there, something he Terou came to America to escape the dangers issues being faced in our community and our says could not have occurred in his native of living in war-torn Syria. Though he did not world. Syria. get into the politics there, or here in the United Oddly enough, Terou said that he spoke to an Terou spoke to over a dozen people at Bonlife States, he did say that it is not easy for atheist group earlier on Sunday.