Lebanese Americans

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Lebanese Americans
Sunni Muslims, Druze, and Judaism.
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Lebanese Americans (

United States of America, as well as immigrants from Lebanon
.

Lebanese Americans comprise 0.79% of the American population, as of the American Community Survey estimations for year 2007, and 32.4% of all Americans who originate from the Middle East.

American politics
and involvement in both social and political activism. The diversity within the region sprouted from the diaspora of the surrounding countries. There are more Lebanese outside Lebanon today than within.

History

Sketch of Antonio Bishallany

The first known Lebanese immigrant to the United States was Antonio Bishallany, a

northern New Jersey, in towns such as Bloomfield, Paterson, Newark, and Orange
. Some immigrants set out west, with places such as
RMS Titanic
.

The second wave of Lebanese immigration began in the late 1940s and continued through the early 1990s, when Lebanese immigrants had been fleeing the Lebanese Civil War. Between 1948 and 1990, over 60,000 Lebanese entered the United States. Since then, immigration has increased to an estimated 5,000 immigrants a year. Those who now settle are predominantly Muslim, in contrast to the predominantly-Christian population of immigrants of previous waves. Christians still comprise a majority of Lebanese in America and in the diaspora of around 14 million Lebanese people living outside Lebanon.

Prominent Lebanese-American Figures

for a more thorough list, click here

Religion

Most of the Lebanese immigrants during the first and the early part of the second waves were

Druze and atheists also exist.[4] This information has been distributed by all American organizations, including the Arab American Institute and the United States census
team.

The United States is the second largest home of Druze communities outside the Middle East after Venezuela (60,000).

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]

Demographics

Redwood City
, California

Palestinian immigrants. Brooklyn holds a significant Lebanese community, with a Maronite Cathedral the center of one of two eparchies for Maronite Lebanese in the United States, the other being in Los Angeles. Lebanese Americans are categorized as White for census purposes.[11]

Miss USA Rima Fakih is Lebanese American.

Houston, Texas also have sizeable Lebanese communities.[10]

The Arab American Institute reports the top five states where Lebanese Americans reside are: Michigan (11%), California (9%), Ohio (6%), Florida (6%), and Massachusetts (5%).[12]

See also

Part of
Lebanese cedar
)
Lebanese people
Communities
Native communities outside of Lebanon:

Lebanese diaspora:

Europe

Overseas

Middle East

Culture
  • Lebanese culture
  • Art
  • Literature
History
Language
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French
French language in Lebanon
English
Politics
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References

  1. ^ U.S. Census Bureau. "2019 American Community Survey - 1-Year Estimates - Table B04006". Retrieved 16 March 2021.
  2. ^ Data Access and Dissemination Systems (DADS). "U.S. Census website". Retrieved 13 August 2015.
  3. ^ Hitti, Philip Khuri (1919). أنطونيوس البشعلاني: اول مهاجر سوري الى العالم الجديد [Antonio al-Bishallany, the first Syrian immigrant to the United States] (in Arabic). New York: Syrian American Press. p. 6.
  4. ^ "Lebanese Americans, Celebrities, Photos and Information". Retrieved 13 August 2015.
  5. ^ "Sending relief--and a message of inclusion and love—to our Druze sisters and brothers". Los Angeles Times. 6 April 2021.
  6. ^ "Finding a life partner is hard enough. For those of the Druze faith, their future depends on it". Los Angeles Times. 27 August 2017.
  7. ^ "Sending relief--and a message of inclusion and love—to our Druze sisters and brothers". Los Angeles Times. 6 April 2021.
  8. ^ "Finding a life partner is hard enough. For those of the Druze faith, their future depends on it". Los Angeles Times. 27 August 2017.
  9. ^ "Finding a life partner is hard enough. For those of the Druze faith, their future depends on it". Los Angeles Times. 27 August 2017.
  10. ^ a b U.S. Arab population doubles over 20 years - News[permanent dead link]
  11. ^ "Decennial Census of Population and Housing Questionnaires & Instructions". U.S. Census Bureau. Archived from the original on 10 October 2021.
  12. ^ The Arab American Institute Archived 2008-01-16 at the Wayback Machine

Further reading

  • Jones, J. Sydney, and Paula Hajar. "Lebanese Americans." in Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America, edited by Thomas Riggs, (3rd ed., vol. 3, Gale, 2014), pp. 79-90. Online
  • Kayal, Philip, and Joseph Kayal. The Syrian Lebanese in America: A Study in Religion and Assimilation (Twayne, 1975).
  • Price, Jay M., and Sue Abdinnour, "Family, Ethnic Entrepreneurship, and the Lebanese of Kansas," Great Plains Quarterly, 33 (Summer 2013), 161–88.
  • Shakir, Evelyn. Remember Me to Lebanon: Stories of Lebanese Women in America (Syracuse University Press, 2007).
  • ISBN 0674375122
    .

External links

Media related to Lebanese diaspora in the United States at Wikimedia Commons

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