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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%.
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.
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.
Since Dearborn is home to the largest Arab American population in the US, Walid said that residents have long been a target for attacks when Islamophobic rhetoric or anti-Arab animus appears in...
Valaurian Waller for The New York Times. By Kurt Streeter. Reporting from Dearborn, Mich. Dec. 1, 2023. Abdullah Hammoud, the 33-year-old mayor of Dearborn, Mich., feels the painful weight...
The city became a fixation of national media seeking to make sense of its growing Muslim American minority. Anti-Muslim activists regularly staged Quran-burnings, paraded around ethnic...
By Yasmeen Serhan. April 19, 2023 2:16 PM EDT. W hen Abdullah Hammoud was elected mayor of Dearborn, Michigan, last year, he became the city’s first ever Muslim and Arab American leader. This...
