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Another family-owned tobacco store, this store is located in Smyrna and is owned by Osama and Nakhla.

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Maher Sedhom is an accountant in Smyrna, TN. He starts advertising his business in the fall before tax season.

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Selling on wholesale level what Egyptians and others would buy in the motherland, this online wholesale shop has what one can find in the homeland from Coptic icons to blankets and bed sheets.

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A new food truck in 2022 run by Antonious Tawadros, a young Coptic men, this food truck sells gyros.

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Like many Coptic women, Mariam Botros runs her restaurant online via Facebook and does it by family orders. She states on Facebook that she makes “authentic Egyptian food.” This is the way in Nashville, currently, to get authentic Egyptian food.

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Run online, but also with a storefront, this furniture store is new in 2022.

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Owned by a first wave Copt, Ashraf Abogerog, and close to his own restaurant entitled Zeus as well, this business opened in 2022 in the Antioch area.

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A restaurant that opened in September 2022 by Fady Wahba (a tech industry person) and Mehta Meximous (owner of Tasty and Delicious Burgers off Nolensville), this is another Coptic-owned restaurant that specializes in wings.

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A transportation business of trash or furniture named after the main person himself, Karas, this business is an example of how community niches are filled (i.e. Copts preferring to hire a Coptic, Arabic-speaking person for the job).
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