Arabic in the USA and the genealogy of Arab-Americans: from migration to integration

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Table 2. The top ten language groups of LEP students.

Rank	Language	LEP Students	Percent of LEPs	Dialects
1	Spanish	3,598,451	79.0%
2	Vietnamese	88,906	2.0%
3	Hmong	70,768	1.6%
4	Chinese, Cantonese	46,466	1.0%	Yue
5	Korean	43,969	1.0%
6	Haitian Creole	42,236	0.9%	Haitian, French Creole
7	Arabic	41,279	0.9%	Regional Arabic
8	Russian	37,157	0.8%
9	Tagalog	34,133	0.7%	Pilipino, Filipino
10	Navajo	27,029	0.6%	Dine

Note LEP: Limited English Proficient. Source: (Kindler, 2002).

Table 1. Arab-American Population: Survey 2000.

Subject	1990		2000		Change 1990 to 2000
	Number	Percentage	Number	Percentage	Number	Percentage
Total Arab Population	860.354	0,35%	1.189.731	0,42%	329.377	38,3%
Lebanese	394.180	45,82%	440.279	37,01%	46.099	11,7%
Syrian	129.606	15,06%	142.897	12,01%	13.291	10,3%
Egyptian	78.574	9,13%	142.832	12,01%	64.258	81,8%
All other Arab	268.378	31,19%	476.863	40,08%	208.485	77,7%

Source: (De la Cruz & Brittingham, 2008).

Table 3. List of title VI middle east NRCs, as of May 19, 2021.

Middle East NRCs Focus	NRCs Programs
Columbia University	Middle East Institute
Duke University	Middle East Studies Center
Georgetown University	Center for Contemporary Arab Studies
Indiana University Bloomington	Center for the Study of the Middle East
New York University	The Hagop Kevorkian Center
University of Arizona	Center for Middle Eastern Studies
University of California, Berkeley	Center for Middle Eastern Studies
University of California, Los Angeles	Center for Middle Eastern Studies
University of Chicago	Center for Middle Eastern Studies
University of Michigan	Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies
University of Pennsylvania	Middle East Center
University of Texas, Austin	Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Yale University	Council on Middle East Studies

Source: (U.S. Department of Education, 2022).

Table 4. List of grantees and funding amounts middle east NRCs for 2022–2025.

NRC Award Number	FLAS Award Number	Institution	NRC Type	NRC Funding FY 2022	FLAS Funding FY 2022
P015A220111	P015B220112	Columbia University	Comprehensive	$246.688	$326.816
P015A220109	P015B220111	George Washington University	Comprehensive	$241.429	$289.489
P015A220011	P015B220012	Georgetown University	Comprehensive	$268.296	$289.075
P015A220089	P015B220091	Indiana University	Comprehensive	$262.323	$288.660
P015A220141	P015B220139	New York University	Comprehensive	$303.785	$262.531
P015A220019	P015B220018	University of Arizona	Undergraduate	$271.959	$282.024
P015A220148	P015B220144	University of California, Los Angeles	Comprehensive	$263.506	$289.075
P015A220084	P015B220081	University of Chicago	Comprehensive	$294.815	$371.193
P015A220073	P015B220075	University of Illinois	Undergraduate	$153.356	$263.776
P015A220006	P015B220008	University of Michigan	Comprehensive	$269.332	$408.105
P015A220007	P015B220010	University of North Carolina,Chapel Hill	Comprehensive	$263.506	$326.816
				$2.838.995	$3.397.560

Source: (U.S. Department of Education, 2022).

Table 5. Course of middle east institute in Columbia university.

Graduate Level Course
Course	Instructor	Day and Time
ANTHROPOLOGY
The Ancient Empires	Terence N D’Altroy	TR 11.40am-12:55pm
Modern State/ Colonial Subject	Mahmood Mamdani
ARCHITECTURE		R 11:am-1:00pm
The Arab City in Film	Yasser Elsheshtawy
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
Arabic Autobiography	Muhsin Al-Musawi	R 2:10pm-4:00pm
The Maghreeb in Transition	Madeleine Dobie	T 2:10pm-4:00pm
HISTORY
Modern Arab Intellectual History	Marwa Elshakary	W 2:10pm-4:00pm
US. Middle Easr & Cold War	Rashid I Khalidi	M 2:10pm-4:00pm
MIDDLE EASTERN, SOUTH ASIAN, & AFRICAN STUDIES
Reading Politics and Law in Classical Arab	Wael Hallaq	W 4:10pm-6:00pm
POLITICAL SCIENCE
National Security Strategy of Middle East	George Lewis	R 10:10am-12:00pm

Source: (Middle East Institute, 2022).

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