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Joseph Massad, Jordan -born Palestinian, Professor at Columbia University known for his work on nationalism and sexuality in the Arab world. Hisham Sharabi, Jaffa -born Palestinian, Professor Emeritus of History. Umar al-Mukhtar, Tobruk -born Libyan, Chair of Arab Culture at Georgetown University.
In the 115th Congress, there were six U.S. representatives and no U.S. senators of Arab-American descent serving in Congress. [1][2] On November 6, 2018, four additional Arab Americans, all of whom are female, were elected to the U.S. House of Representatives: Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, Ilhan Omar, Donna Shalala and Rashida Tlaib.
Arab Americans. Arab Americans (Arabic: عَرَبٌ أَمْرِيكِا, romanized: ʻArab Amrīkā or Arabic: العرب الأمريكيون, romanized: al-ʻArab al-Amrīkīyūn) are Americans of Arab ancestry. Arab Americans trace ancestry to any of the various waves of immigrants from the Arab world.
April marks Arab American Heritage Month. Here's what a few Americans of Arab heritage are saying about the significance of the month. ... I paid $530 for one night in Hawaii's famous pink hotel ...
Hamida Dakane – first Black and first Muslim to serve in the North Dakota House of Representatives [26] Keith Ellison – first Muslim congressman from Minnesota [27] Louis Farrakhan – leader of the Nation of Islam. George Bethune English (1787–1828) – American adventurer, diplomat, soldier, and convert to Islam.
As of 2013, an estimated 1.02 million immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) lived in the United States, making up 2.5 percent of the country's 41.3 million immigrants. [ 38 ] Middle Eastern and North African immigrants have primarily settled in California (20%), Michigan (11%), and New York (10%).
This is a list of Muslim members of the United States Congress. As of 2023, only four Muslim Americans have ever been elected to Congress, the first being Keith Ellison in 2006. [1] Three Muslims currently serve in Congress, all in the House of Representatives. All four are Democrats.
Arab-American nonfiction writers and journalists. Diana Abu-Jaber, food history, of Jordanian and Palestinian descent. Hakim Almasmari, journalist, publisher, editor; of Yemeni descent. Moustafa Bayoumi (born 1958), history writer, academic; of Egyptian descent. Chawky Frenn, painter, professor, writer of books on artists.