Arab Americans
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Arab Americans are Americans who trace ancestry to any of the various waves of immigrants from the Arabic-speaking countries. In the United States census, Arabs are racially classified as White Americ
The Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, celebrates the history of Arab Americans.
Paterson, New Jersey, has been nicknamed Little Ramallah and contains a neighborhood with the same name, with an Arab American population estimated as high as 20,000 in 2015.
March on Washington for Gaza in January 2024
Mansaf, a popular Arab lamb dish
Syrian Americans
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Syrian Americans are Americans of Syrian descent or background. The first significant wave of Syrian immigrants to arrive in the United States began in the 1880s. Many of the earliest Syrian Americans
Arab Americans
…Americans was the largest MENA alone or in any combination group with 685,672 people. The following largest groups were Egyptians Americans with 396,854, Syrian Americans with 222,196 and Iraqi Americans with 212,875. Additionally 238,921 defined themselves as simply "Arabs". According to the 2010 United States census…
Syrian children between 1910 and 1915
The Christian quarter of Damascus, which was destroyed in the 1860 civil war
Men smoking shisha and playing cards in a Syrian restaurant, Little Syria (Manhattan), 1910