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Egyptian Americans (Arabic: الأمريكيون المصريون, romanized: al-Amirīkīyūn al-Miṣrīyūn) are Americans of partial or full Egyptian ancestry. The 2016 US Census estimated the number of people with Egyptian ancestry at 256,000, [ 8 ] most of whom are from Egypt's Christian Orthodox Coptic minority. [ 7 ]
Norsereddin, fictional “Egyptian” American Indian figuring in late 19th-century local legend in New York's Hudson Valley Feisal Abdul Rauf (1948–present), Sufi imam Yaser Abdel Said , an Honour Killing , filicide perpetrator and former fugitive who murdered his two daughters.
The image suggests a special relationship between Egypt as the first and America as the latest civilization. [1] Egyptomania refers to a period of renewed interest in the culture of ancient Egypt sparked by Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign in the 19th century. Napoleon was accompanied by many scientists and scholars during this campaign, which led ...
Pages in category "American people of Egyptian descent" The following 121 pages are in this category, out of 121 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The U.S. House of Representatives currently has five Arab-American members. The first Assyrian American to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives was Adam Benjamin in 1977, [4] and the first Persian-American U.S. representative was Stephanie Bice in 2021. [5] The first Egyptian-American and Coptic-American U.S. senator was George Helmy in ...
Historians have uncovered some information about Arab Americans during the American Revolutionary War, which estimates around four Arab Americans served in the Continental Army. The first Arab American to die for America was Private Nathan Badeen, a Syrian immigrant who died on May 23, 1776, just a month and a half before American independence. [7]
Arab American leaders gathered in Troy to hear former Ambassador Richard Grenell and Michael Boulos, a Trump son-in-law of Lebanese descent. ... Yemeni Americans from Wayne County; Egyptian ...
The largest subgroup is by far the Lebanese Americans, with 501,907, [5] followed by; Egyptian Americans with 190,078, Syrian Americans with 187,331, [6] Iraqi Americans with 105,981, Moroccan Americans with 101,211, Palestinian Americans with 85,186, and Jordanian Americans with 61,664. Approximately 1/4 of all Arab Americans claimed two ...