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Phoenix Chapter

Maricopa County

Home to a Lebanese-American community with roots going back to the early 1900s, alongside more recent Syrian, Egyptian, and Iraqi Arab refugee-resettlement populations, with Maronite Catholic and Antiochian Orthodox parishes, a Coptic Orthodox Egyptian parish, and a small but documented Middle Eastern grocery and restaurant scene.

Arab ancestry (ACS est.)

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Arabic spoken at home

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Limited English proficiency share

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Dominant dialect profile

Longstanding Lebanese-American community alongside more recent Palestinian, Syrian, Egyptian, and Iraqi Arab refugee-resettlement populations; distinct from Phoenix's much larger Somali/East African and South Asian communities