List of Arabic neighborhoods

Characteristics

Arab restaurants

Grocery stores and restaurants

Arabic language

History

America

Arab immigration to the United States began when Arabs accompanied Spanish explorers to the US in the 15th century. During the Revolutionary War, horses exported from Algeria replenished the American cavalry and Morocco was the first country to officially recognize the independence of the United States in 1787 in what is known as the "treaty of Friendship". However, Arabs did not start immigrating to the United States in significant numbers until the 19th century. Since the first major wave of Arab immigration in the late 19th century, the majority of Arab immigrants have settled in or near large cities. Roughly 94 percent of all Arab immigrants live in metropolitan areas, and nearly one third of all Arab Americans live in or around just three cities: New York, Los Angeles and Detroit. While most Arab-Americans have similarly settled in just a handful of major American cities, they form a fairly diverse population representing nearly every country and religion from the Arab world. There are still a lot of Arabs immigrating to America. Egypt is in the top 10 of countries where the most immigrants came from.

See Arab immigration to the United States

Locations

North America

New York City:

• Astoria, Queens has many Egyptians, also called Little Egypt.
• Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn
• Bay Ridge and Brighton Beach in Brooklyn are fast growing Arab neighborhoods and new ethnic Arab communities in New York City.
• Boerum Hill and Midwood in Brooklyn have large communities of Arab Muslims.
• Upper Manhattan

New Jersey:

• Clifton
• Jersey City
• Paterson, also known as Little Ramallah.

Michigan:

• Dearborn is the place in America with the highest concentration of Arabic people. Around 40% of the people there see themselves as Arab.

Europe

Netherlands:

The biggest group of Arabs in the Netherlands are Moroccans. Around 20% of the 400,000 Moroccans there are Arab, but that concentration is increasing. Egyptians are the second biggest group.

• Schilderswijk, The Hague
• Amsterdam Nieuw-West, Amsterdam

Neighborhoods like Overtoomse Veld, Slotervaart, Slotermeer, Osdorp, Geuzenveld, Kolenkitbuurt and Bos en Lommer have a high concentration of Moroccans.

• Kanaleneiland, Utrecht.
• Rotterdam Zuid

Belgium:

• Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, Brussels
• Schaerbeek, Brussels
• Borgerhout, Antwerp

France: France has over 5 million Muslims. Most Arabic speakers are from the Maghreb

• There are in Paris over 70,000 Arabic speakers. In the 18th, 19th and 20th arrondissement, there have always been great communities of Arab-speaking people, mostly from the Maghreb (Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia).
• Around 20% of the residents of Saint-Denis speak Arabic.
• Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine contains a number of Moroccans, especially Chleuh people.
• Sarcelles. Here is also a Maghrebian enclave

Germany:

Asia