Early Arab American communities published 21 Arabic periodicals for fifty thousand people

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

Categorization

• CANDY: A striking fact for dinner conversation: a community of 50,000 publishing 21 newspapers — a remarkable ratio of print density.
• SEED: Could ground an article on immigrant press density as a proxy for community vitality and political engagement.