He included in the evening's program a poem from Langston Hughes.Įatonville was a Southern-inspired restaurant that opened in 2009 and closed in 2015. Shallal spoke about the significance of the recently opened museum. The 2017 Peace Ball took place at the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Shallal is the founder of the Peace Ball inaugural balls. In 2017, Andy Shallal closed his stores for the day in solidarity with A Day Without Immigrants.

Busboys and Poets The Peace Ball was noted to have more star power than Donald Trump's Inaugural Ball. The next openings are projected for 2020 in Baltimore and Columbia, MD. The seventh location opened in Anacostia in Southeast, D.C. In 2015 Busboys and Poets opened in Takoma. In 2014 Busboys and Poets opened in Brookland. A fourth location opened in Hyattsville, Maryland, in summer 2011. Shallal opened a second Busboys location in Arlington in July 2007, and a third location in D.C. There are seven locations in the Washington, D.C., area. The restaurant was an instant success, embraced by the neighborhood and the progressive community, especially among activists opposed to the Iraq War. The restaurant features a bookstore, performance space and a mural painted by Shallal. In September 2005, he opened Busboys and Poets (a phrase from the works of poet Langston Hughes) at 14th and V, in the historic U Street neighborhood. Shallal worked as a researcher in medical immunology at the National Institutes of Health. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. Shallal earned his MBA from the Robert H. He graduated from Catholic University of America and later enrolled in Howard University medical school.

His father was Ambassador of the Arab League, a position he held until Saddam Hussein seized power, after which they could not return. Shallal moved to the United States with his family in 1966.

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