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Jordan Times newspaper; ED229297 - American, Jordanian, and Other Middle Eastern National Perceptions. Embassy of the United States Amman, Jordan. Relations with the United States. American Chamber of Commerce in Jordan Celebrates its Tenth Anniversary. U.S. Arab population up more than 75 percent since 1990, census report shows
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]
Jordan ended its special defense treaty relationship with the United Kingdom and British troops completed their withdrawal in 1957. In February 1958, following announcement of the merger of Syria and Egypt into the United Arab Republic, Iraq and Jordan announced the Arab Federation of Iraq and Jordan, also known as the Arab Union. The Union was ...
Black September (Arabic: أيلول الأسود Aylūl al-ʾAswad), also known as the Jordanian Civil War, [9] was an armed conflict between Jordan, led by King Hussein, and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), led by chairman Yasser Arafat. The main phase of the fighting took place between 16 and 27 September 1970, though certain ...
The first documentary on Arab Americans premiered on PBS in August 2017, "The Arab Americans" features the Arab American immigrant story as told through the lens of American History and the stories of prominent Arab Americans such as actor Jamie Farr, Ralph Nader, Senator George Mitchell, White House Reporter Helen Thomas, Pulitzer Prize ...
Donald Trump's allies are working to win over Arab American voter s who are unhappy with President Joe Biden’s support for Israel. The effort is led by Massad Boulos, whose son married Tiffany ...
Arab Jordanians are mostly either descended from families and clans who were living in the cities and towns in Transjordan prior to Jordanian independence in 1946, most notably in the governorates of Jerash, Ajlun, Balqa, Irbid, Madaba, Al Karak, Aqaba, Amman and some other towns in the country, or from the Palestinian families who sought ...
In 1921, former Ottoman Jordan was transformed into the Emirate of Transjordan (1921–1946), which was a British protectorate. The British Empire, having signed the 1926 Slavery Convention as a member of the League of Nations , was obliged to investigate, report and fight slavery and slave trade in all land under direct or indirect control of ...