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Osama Alsahybi, 20, sits in his brother's deli in the Brooklyn Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. Osama has been in the U.S. for just under two years. Having zero English knowledge prior to coming to the US, he now speaks easily, laughs often and has made friends with all the regular customerrs who enter into the deli. To then, he's known simply as Oz.