Mahaboob Ben Ali and His Chili Bowl: A Story of Family and Identity in the U Street Corridor
Honors thesis submission by Sonali Mirpuri entitled "Mahaboob Ben Ali and His Chili Bowl: A Story of Family and Identity in the U Street Corridor", submitted to the Georgetown University History Department on May 4, 2020. The thesis describes the history of Ben Ali—an Indo-Trinidadian immigrant to the U.S. who descended from indentured laborers—and his landmark Washington, D.C.