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SUMMARY:NATIONAL ARAB AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH
DESCRIPTION:National Arab American Heritage Month (NAAHM) takes place in Ap
 ril. It celebrates the Arab American heritage and culture and pays tribute
  to the contributions of Arab Americans.\n\nAcross the country\, cultural 
 institutions\, school districts\, municipalities\, state legislatures\, pu
 blic servants\, and Arab Americans engage in special events that celebrate
  our community’s rich heritage and numerous contributions to society.\n\
 nAccording to ArabAmerica.com\, It was first celebrated in the 1990s\, pri
 marily in school districts. Since then\, it has grown to be recognized inc
 reasingly by states\, cities\, and school districts across the country.\n\
 nIn 2017\, Arab America\, a media and educational resource organization de
 dicated to portraying the Arab community in the United States began an ini
 tiative to designate the month as a national holiday.\n\nArab America and 
 the Arab America Foundation launched the National Arab American Heritage M
 onth initiative in 2017\, with just a handful of states recognizing the in
 itiative. Each year\, a grass-roots network of over 250 Arab American volu
 nteers in 26 states gathers hundreds of proclamations from their states\, 
 counties\, municipalities\, and local school districts.\n\nThe President o
 f the United States recognized the month of April as National Arab America
 n Heritage Month with a special commemorative letter to our organization. 
 In 2021\, Congress\, the U.S. Department of State\, and 37 state governors
  issued proclamations commemorating the initiative.\n\nMany Arab Americans
  are second\, third\, and fourth-generation immigrants. Some are descendan
 ts of the first immigrants who arrived in the New York and New Jersey area
 s in the second half of the 19th Century.\n\nArab Americans can trace thei
 r ancestry to the countries from which they or their ancestors migrated to
  the United States. These countries include Algeria\, Bahrain\, Comoros\, 
 Djibouti\, Egypt\, Iraq\, Jordan\, Kuwait\, Lebanon\, Libya\, Mauritania\,
  Morocco\, Oman\, Palestine\, Qatar\, Saudi Arabia\, Somalia\, Sudan\, Syr
 ia\, Tunisia\, United Arab Emirates\, and Yemen. The largest group\, compr
 ising nearly one-third of the Arab American population\, are Lebanese Amer
 icans. The Census Bureau reported in 2010 that there were 1.8 million Arab
  Americans in the United States\, with the largest percentage residing in 
 Dearborn\, Michigan\, a suburb of Detroit.
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