Arab American Heritage Month marks a time to reflect on this diverse group of people as well as the contributions Arab Americans have made to the U.S. Arab Americans have a long history in the United States, with the first wave biginning to arrive in the 1870's and a second wave in the 1990s. Arab Americans have ancestry in one of the world’s 22 Arab nations, which are located from northern Africa through western Asia. The people of these nations are ethnically, politically, and religiously diverse but share a common cultural and linguistic heritage. The world’s 22 Arab nations are Algeria, Bahrain, the Comoro Islands, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Morocco, Mauritania, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, and Yemen.DID YOU KNOW? Syrian immigrant Abe Doumar (1881-1947) is known in Norfolk for inventing the ice cream cone in 1904 at the St. Louis World’s Fair. His ice cream stand at the 1907 Jamestown Exposition led to the present-day, family-owned Doumar’s in Norfolk which still serves ice cream using the original cone machine.
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