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Arab Americans in the 2000 [11] – 2010 US census [12] [note 1] – 2020 US census [13] Ancestry 2000 2000 (% of US population) 2010 2010 (% of US population) 2020
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]
That same sentiment was shared in 2003 by the late Arab American author Elizabeth Boosahda in “Arab-American Faces and Voices,” when she wrote about the need to cover this part of history.
Arab American Heritage Month is intended to commemorate and honor the achievements of the some of the roughly 3.7 million members of the community residing in the U.S.
The United States Department of State has recognized April as the National Arab American Heritage Month. Stating in a public announcement on April 1, 2021, through their official social media channels: "Americans of Arab heritage are very much a part of the fabric of this nation, and Arab Americans have contributed in every field and profession."
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 ...
The Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee typically holds its annual convention in Washington D.C. This year, it needed to be in Dearborn. ‘We are not OK:’ Arab Americans, feeling ...
Yet Arab Americans remain deeply concerned about Gaza’s rising death toll, now exceeding 42,000, and the escalating conflict spreading throughout the Middle East, including in Lebanon, Yemen and ...