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…dollars. Now they recognize and under- stand that an Arab-American community does exist." This growing recognition from the out- side was paralleled by a new awareness within the Arab-American community. A generation ago, he says, the community was dominated by immigrants from tiny villages in Syria and Lebanon. "Our parents were unlike the first few waves of Jewish immigration," he says. "The early Jewish immigrants were urban, they brought w...…

















































