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Daily Life of Arab Americans in the 21st Century (Greenwood, 2012). Alsultany, Evelyn. Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race and Representation after 9/11 (New York University Press, 2012). Cainkar, Louis A. Homeland insecurity: the Arab American and Muslim American experience after 9/11 (Russell Sage Foundation, 2009). Haddad, Yvonne Yazbeck.
Lebanese are the largest group of Arab Americans in every state except for New Jersey, where Egyptians make up the largest nationality. [28] 80 percent of Arabs living in the United States are citizens. [30] As of the 2000 census, 40 percent of Arab Americans are first generation, a quarter of them having come since 1990. [30]
Christian Arab Americans include Catholics, Orthodox, and Protestants; Muslim Arab Americans primarily adhere to one of the two main Islamic denominations, Sunni and Shia. [ 43 ] Notable people
Arab immigration to the United States began in larger numbers during the 1880s, and today, an estimated 3.7 million Americans have some Arabic background. [14] [323] [324] Arab Americans are found in every state, but more than two thirds of them live in just ten states, and one-third live in Los Angeles, Detroit, and New York City specifically.
Arab Americans make up 39% of Hamtramck's population, most of them of Yemeni descent, with an additional 29% who are Asian American, a majority of them with roots in Bangladesh.
Saudi Americans (Arabic: سُعُودِيُّونْ أَمْرِيكِيُّونْ , romanized: suʿudiyyūn ʼamrīkiyyūn) are Americans of total or partial Saudi descent. According to the 2020 census, 30,563 people of Saudi origin were living in the United States .
Being American, like 6-year-old Wadea Al-Fayoume was, does not protect us from the stigma of being Palestinian or Arab, Muslim and from the “Middle East.” Rather, these latter identities keep ...
In the southwest Chicago suburb of Oak Lawn, tensions are boiling between Arab-American activists and police. Activists have been showing up at every police and fire commission meeting since the ...