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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
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 ...
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 ...
Today, Arabs make up roughly 1.2 percent of the overall US population. [29] Between 1990 and 2000 the Arab American population increased by an estimated 30 percent. [29] Lebanese are the largest group of Arab Americans in every state except for New Jersey, where Egyptians make up the largest nationality. [28]
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 ...
The war in Israel and Gaza has turned life upside down for millions of people and the ripple effects are being felt across the ocean in the United States.
Ameen Rihani, "father of Arab American literature", member of the New York Pen League and author of The Book of Khalid, the first Arab American novel in English; also an ambassador; Mona Simpson, author of Anywhere but Here (Syrian father) Stephen Adly Guirgis, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright (Egyptian father)
Trump wants Jordan and Egypt, two Arab allies of the U.S. that neighbor Israel, to accept the refugees while the United States assumes "long-term ownership" over the area and leads the ...