A 50,000-person Arab community published 21 newspapers in fifteen years

Evidence

The number of newspapers published by the community is remarkable. Between 1892 and 1907, the Arab American community published twenty-one Arabic “dailies, weeklies, and monthlies,” seventeen of which were based in New York City, for a population not much larger than fifty thousand people. — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 1136 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

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  • XREF: connects to: Early Arab American communities published 21 Arabic periodicals for fifty thousand people — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 1136

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