The Ramallah Federation serves the over 30,000 people living in the United States of Ramallah heritage. They are concentrated in such major cities as San Francisco, San Jose, San Diego, Santa Rosa, and Los Angeles CA; Jacksonville, FL; Houston, TX; Detroit, MI; Chicago, IL; Washington, DC; Knoxville, TN; Lexington, KY; Greensboro, NC; Birmingham, AL; Cleveland, OH; Little Rock, AR; Buffalo and Hempstead, NY; Milwaukee, WI; and South Plainfield, NJ. The organization was established in 1959. The national office is located in the Detroit metropolitan area. The goals of the Ramallah Federation are: --To perpetuate and enhance the close ties that exist among all Ramallah people through the formulation of local clubs. --To instill and nurture in the Ramallah Youth in the United States their ancestral language, culture and heritage. --To orient the American public with Arab culture and heritage and to promote better understanding of the political aspirations of the Palestinians in particular and the Arabs in general.
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