December 04, 2003 (vol. 113, iss. 64) • Page Image 2
…. Judges question free trial for Moussaoui I U.S. Arab population doubles over 20 years WASHINGTON (AP) - The Arab population in the United States has nearly doubled in the past two decades, according to…
…- lion Arabs in the United States in 2000, compared with 860,000 in 1990 and 610,000 in 1980. About 60 percent trace their ances- try to three countries: Lebanon, Syria and Egypt. While earlier Arab…
… immigrants came from countries with large Christian populations, newer arrivals come from heavily Muslim countries such as Iraq and Yemen. "Immigrants from the Arab world come for the same reason all immi…
…- grants come - economic opportunity, opportunities to have an education, to develop a professional career," said Helen Samhan, executive director of the Arab American Institute Founda- tion, a research…
… group. Samhan said the lifting of U.S. immigration quotas in the 1960s opened the door to people from Arab countries and many took advantage during the 1980s and 1990s, with a large number coming from…
… nations such as Lebanon and Iraq where there were wars. Almost half of the Arabs in the Unit- ed States live in five states - Califor- nia (190,890), New York (120,370), Michigan (115,284), New Jersey (71…
…,770) and Florida (77,461). . "It would be better to come to America than Europe or Canada," said Zak Trad, 33, of Anaheim, Calif., who came from Lebanon three years ago. "It's the largest Arab community not…
… in an Arab country. I didn't think I would be a stranger here." New York City, the first stop for mil- lions of immigrants for more than a century, had the largest Arab popula- tion among U.S. cities…






































