23 Facts About Syrian Americans

The first major wave of Syrian Americans immigrants arrived in the United States from Ottoman Syria in the period between 1889 and 1914.

When "Syrian Americans" became available as a designation at the turn of the 20th century.

Many recent Syrian Americans immigrants are medical doctors who studied at Damascus and Aleppo Universities and pursued their residencies and fellowships in the United States.

In 1890 the writer Jacob Riis wrote How the Other Half Lives, a book focused on Syrian Americans children, representing the children as pitiful but dangerous.

In light of the Arab–Israeli conflict, many Syrian Americans tried to affect American foreign policy by joining Arab political groups in the United States.

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Syrian Americans were part of the Arab American Institute, established in 1985, which supports and promotes Arab American candidates, or candidates commiserative with Arabs and Arab Americans, for office.

Majority of the early Syrian Americans immigrants arrived in the United States seeking better jobs; they usually engaged in basic commerce, especially peddling.

Syrian Americans gradually started to work in various metiers; many worked as physicians, lawyers, and engineers.

Many Syrian Americans worked in the bustling auto industry, bringing about large Syrian American gatherings in areas like Dearborn, Michigan.

Later Syrian Americans emigrants served in fields like banking, medicine, and computer science.

Syrian Americans have a different occupational distribution than all Americans.

However, Syrian Americans worked less in the other work domains like farming, transportation, construction, etc.

Median household income for Syrian families is higher than the national earning median; employed Syrian men earned an average $46, 058 per year, compared with $37, 057 for all Americans and $41, 687 for Arab Americans.

Unlike many Western foods, Syrian Americans foods take more time to cook, are less expensive and usually more healthy.

The Syrian Americans cuisine includes other dishes like stuffed zucchini, dolma, kebab, kibbeh, kibbeh nayyeh, mujaddara, shawarma, and shanklish.

Syrian Americans music includes several genres and styles of music ranging from Arab classical to Arabic pop music and from secular to sacred music.

Syrian Americans music is characterized by an emphasis on melody and rhythm, as opposed to harmony.

Syrian Americans music is characterized by the predominance of vocal music.

Some Muslim Syrian Americans women wear a hijab, which is a headscarf worn by Muslim and orthodox Christian women to cover their hair.

Syrian Americans celebrate many religious holidays, with Christian Syrian Americans celebrating most of the Christian holidays that are already celebrated in the United States, but in addition to a few others or at different times.

Muslim Syrian Americans celebrate three main Muslim holidays: Ramadan, Eid ul-Fitr, and Eid ul-Adha (Greater Bairam).

Syrian American marriages are usually very strong; this is reflected by the low divorce rates among Syrian Americans, which are below the average rates in the United States.

Syrian Americans, including the earliest immigrants, have always placed a high premium on education.