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Married to Madame Nadia's daughter, Marina Zaki, Keroles is new in Nashville and posts often about his business in order to make roads with the community to hire him. Here, he's posting about fixing an Egyptian's food truck.

Very active on Facebook to show off the latest jewelry in store, Prince Jewelry is owned by Mr. Amir and is located in a strip mall with Captan Salon (Arab-owned), a tacqueria, and more.

In the same plaza as Asia Hair Salon, this Coptic-owned market in Mt. Juliet is the first of its kind so far north of the community. It's owned by two migrant Copts from the Emirates.

Next to Hella Hot Chicken off Bell Road, this agency is a common office for the Coptic middle class.

Owned by a Coptic-family that started off in Nashville at Gaylord Opryland, the gas station is close to Opryland and rests on busy intersection at Elm Hill Pike and Donelson Road.

A major employer in Rutherford County, it's well-known that they smoothed the transition for their employees during the pandemic. Several second generation engineers work at Nissan as well.

A pizza store owned by a Coptic family in rural Smyrna in a strip mall with a Kroger, the store is well-connected to newcomers who are starting to skip over Davidson County to live in Rutherford and begin a life there. Most of those migrants have…

A franchise owned by a Coptic family, Sweet Mooyah's serves ice cream and desserts next to a Thai restaurant and a holistic-body store near to Rocky Road, a road that leads to Smyrna, another hub for middle class Copts despite its rurality.

A California-themed restaurant right off Nolensville Road, in Williamson County, West Coast's the cooking staff speaks Spanish and the owner, who runs the cash register, speaks Arabic. When we visited, the owner was in Egypt that summer and gave…

Owned by a small Coptic family, Party Family is in a new strip mall off Nolensville Pike near the Williamson County line. It's unassuming, but a lot of the inventory speaks to "American" celebrations like bachelorette parties, Halloween, etc.