You’re correct, her parents were immigrants from Lebanon. Her father’s birth name was George Antonious and her mother’s maiden name was Mary Rowady. She was born in Kentucky, but raised in Detroit.
I pray she actually changed her name as opposed to her getting married.
Her father’s birth name was George Antonious . . . .
It was a Christian Arab with that same name who, in the early 1920s, wrote “The Arab Awakening,” an early ‘textbook’ of pan-Arab nationalism.
Wonder if it’s her father. If so, it would explain a great deal . . . . .