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The number of Arab Christians who live in the Middle East was estimated in 2012 to be between 10 and 15 million. [1] Arab Christian communities can be found throughout the Arab world, but are concentrated in the Eastern Mediterranean region of the Levant and Egypt, with smaller communities present throughout the Arabian Peninsula and North Africa.
Arab Christians historically had a much easier time immigrating to the United States than did Muslims. [2] During this first wave of immigration, greater Syria was still under Ottoman control, but tensions existed between the Arab Muslims and Christians.
[1] [2] [3] Today, most Middle Eastern people in the United States are Christians, [4] and the majority of Arabs living outside the Arab World are Arab Christians. Push factors motivating Christians to emigrate include religious discrimination, persecution, and cleansing. Pull factors include prospects of upward mobility as well as joining ...
St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church of Bellaire, Texas. The immigration of Copts to the United States started as early as the late 1940s. After 1952, the rate of Coptic immigration from Egypt to the United States increased because of persisting persecution and discrimination against Christians in a Muslim majority nation, political turmoils and revolutions.
“Arab Christians are not talked about a lot, but the majority of Middle Easterners in the United States are Christians, not Muslims, close to 70 percent, but most people don’t look at it from ...
The United States is the second largest home of Druze communities outside the Middle East after Venezuela (60,000). [5] According to some estimates there are about 30,000 [6] to 50,000 [7] Druzes in the United States, with the largest concentration in Southern California. [8] Most Druze immigrated to the U.S. from Lebanon and Syria. [9]
The diversity of Muslims in the United States is vast, and so is the breadth of the Muslim American experience. Relaying short anecdotes representative of their everyday lives, nine Muslim Americans demonstrate both the adversities and blessings of Muslim American life.
In the United States census, Arabs are racially classified as White Americans because "White" is defined as "A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa". [3] According to the 2010 United States census, there are 1,698,570 Arab Americans in the United States.