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In 2014, Montgomery County, Maryland, designated April as Arab American Heritage Month in recognition of the contributions that Arab Americans have made to the nation. [92] Arab America and the Arab America Foundation launched the National Arab American Heritage Month initiative in 2017, with just a handful of states recognizing the initiative.
Since the first major wave of Arab immigration in the late 19th century, the majority of Arab immigrants have settled in or near large cities. Roughly 94 percent of all Arab immigrants live in metropolitan areas, [1] [2] While most Arabic-speaking Americans have similarly settled in just a handful of major American cities, they form a fairly ...
Largest Arab-American and Middle eastern enclaves. Chicago – A section of city nicknamed "Little Iraq", Chicago has the largest Iraqi community in the USA. Little Arabia in the city's Northwest side, for example, has many Arab-Americans. [309] Devon Avenue (Chicago) also has Arabs, Iranians and South Asians such as Pashtun Americans.
List of U.S. communities with Asian American majority populations. List of U.S. cities with large Cambodian-American populations; List of U.S. cities with significant Chinese American populations
In 1994, the Islamic Center of Yuba City, in California, was destroyed by a fire set in a hate-crime, the first mosque destroyed by a hate crime in U.S. history. It had just been completed at the cost of $1.8 million plus sweat equity of the Muslims of its rural community, including descendants of Pakistan who immigrated to the area c. 1902.
Dearborn and two other Michigan cities with large Arab and Muslim populations turned against President Joe Biden in the state’s primary after Democratic leaders there warned for months that ...
The Islamic Center of Passaic County, the American Arab Civic Organization, and the American Muslim Union, all based in Paterson, New Jersey, voice Muslims' opposition to terrorism, including the November 2015 Paris attacks. [202] In November 2022, Nabeela Syed was elected as the first state legislature. In the Illinois 51st district, she ...
Paterson, New Jersey, has its southern half of the city nicknamed Little Ramallah, with an Arab American population estimated as high as 20,000 in 2015. [17] It is one of the most concentrated areas of Palestinian Americans in the entire United States. [18] It is also called Little Istanbul, since it also has a growing Turkish American community.