Arab American Facts

The first Arabs to have come to the United States came with the Spanish Explorers in the fifteenth century.

By 1919, half of the Arabs immigrating to the United States from Greater Syria were women.

Ninety percent of the Syrians and Lebanese who came during the Great Migration were Christians.

The first Arab American mosque built in the United States was in Highland Park, Michigan in 1923.

Early Arab immigrants often found work as peddlers; selling various household goods door-to-door or with a horse and buggy.

Many Arab Americans value entrepreneurship, the desire to work for oneself, or owning one’s own business. 

Arab American families tend to have close relationships.  They often live near one another, and spend a lot of time together.