The City celebrates and honors Arab American Heritage Month in April with programs and a proclamation highlighting the culture, heritage, and achievements of our Arab American neighbors.

April is dedicated to Arab American Heritage Month, recognizing people with ancestry from a wide range of Arabic-speaking countries and regions in the Middle East and parts of northern Africa.

The United States is home to more than 3.5 million Arab Americans who trace their ancestry to 22 countries stretching from North Africa in the west to the Arabian Gulf in the east. Arabs are ethnically, religiously and politically diverse but descend from a common linguistic and cultural heritage. The number of Marylanders who claim an Arab ancestry has more than doubled since the Census first measured ethnic origins in 1980 and is among the fastest growing Arab populations in the country. The largest number of new Arab immigrants to Maryland come from Iraq, Egypt, and Morocco.