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New U.S. Census Bureau data shows for the first time, people of Middle Eastern or North African ancestry make up the majority of Dearborn’s population, 54.5%. “I think it’s probably closer...
The Dearborn community is overwhelmingly Muslim, and majority Shiite Muslim. Shiites are a minority in the Muslim world. It’s also mostly Lebanese, with smaller pockets of Iraqis, Yemenis, and Palestinians. Nationally, Arab Americans are roughly half Muslims and half Christians.
Dearborn now boasts the largest and most diverse Arab community in the US, and of the city's 98,000 residents, more than 30 per cent identify as Arab-American or claim some form of Arab descent.
While most early 20th-century Arab immigrants to the United States were Christians, those who moved to Dearborn in the 1920s were mainly Muslims from southern Lebanon. A history of Dearborn...
New waves of immigration came from the Middle East in the late 20th century, Muslims and Christians from Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Iraq, and Yemen. Dearborn has the largest Muslim population in the United States per capita and the largest mosque in North America.
09/20/2023 05:00 AM EDT. Dearborn, Mich., is home to the largest Muslim population per capita in the nation. Yet it didn’t elect its first Muslim mayor until 2022 with the victory of...
Arab Americans, for the first time, now make up a majority of the residents of Dearborn, and Michigan's total Middle Eastern population has surpassed 300,000 residents, according to new...
