Arab American Immigration, 1880 to World War I | Arab Indianapolis

Learn how and when Arab Americans first arrived in the United States, where they settled in Indianapolis, and about social life and labor in the first Arabic-speaking neighborhood in the city.

In the video, Arab American author and historian Edward Curtis returns to the neighborhood with Andrea Watts, a descendant of the first generation of Arab Americans to settle in Indianapolis.

The video uses maps to show how half a million Arabic speakers immigrated from the Eastern Mediterranean to the Americas.