Little Arabia Anaheim USAGM
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- Little Arabia Anaheim USAGM
- November 14, 2022
- Content Type Package
- Language English
- Transcript/Script English USAGM SHARE ((PLAYBOOK SLUG: Little Arabia – Anaheim HEADLINE: California City Designates 'Little Arabia' Neighborhood TEASER: Arab American community promoting greater visibility PUBLISHED AT: 11/14/2022 at 11:20 am BYLINE: Genia Dulot CONTRIBUTOR: DATELINE: Anaheim, California VIDEOGRAPHER: Genia Dulot PRODUCER: Genia Dulot SCRIPT EDITORS: SKS, MAS VIDEO SOURCE (S): VOA PLATFORMS (mark with X): WEB __ TV X RADIO _X_ TRT: 2:28 VID APPROVED BY: MAS TYPE: TVPKG EDITOR NOTES: [[((INTRO)) California is home to the largest Arab American community in the United States. That growing economic and political visibility is evident in Southern California’s newly designated “Little Arabia” neighborhood. For VOA, Genia Dulot takes us there. ((Kareem Hawari, Kareem’s Falafel)) “Hi, I am Kareem, and this is “Kareems’s Restaurant”, my parents opened in 1996, I was born the same year, and they named me after it. Let’s go check it out.” ((NARRATOR)) Kareem Hawari’s parents opened one of the first Arab restaurants in the city of Anaheim, adjusting their recipes to fit the diverse taste of the community. ((Kareem Hawari, Kareem’s Falafel)) “Everybody has their own way of serving Arabic food. My mom, when she takes orders, she say: “Where are you from? Are you from Syria? Are you from Lebanon? Are you from Egypt? Then she changes her whole dialect, now she is speaking Egyptian Arabic, next customer is Syrian, now she is speaking Syrian dialect.” ((NARRATOR)) Alladin Khouraki’s parents opened the Altayebat Market in 1983. ((Aladdin Khouraki, Altayebat Market)) “It wasn’t really anything, when we first opened here. When I was a kid, it was nothing, and now it is bunch of restaurants, another store, clothing stores, just like a “Little Saigon” or “Little Korea”, those are recognized, I think it’s important, that we are recognized, this area is recognized as “Little Arabia”. ((NARRATOR)) The Anaheim neighborhood won that designation after years of campaigning by local business owners and Arab American community leaders. Resident Manal Saad says greater awareness makes a difference. ((Manal Saad, Anaheim Resident)) “Maybe because I wear a scarf or I am more by my look identify as an Arab, now people are like: ‘OK, I know more about her.’ And not just religion, but more about culture, which I feel like is important because when people look at me, they only see religion, but I want them to also know, that ‘hey, religion, there is also my culture, where my parents came from." ((NARRATOR)) The Arab American Institute Foundation says California’s community of nearly 400,000 Arab-Americans is the nation’s largest. But community leader Rashad Al-Dabbagh says they remain undercounted. ((Rashad Al-Dabbagh, Arab American Civic Council Executive Director)) “The estimate in Orange County is close to 90,000, but we don’t have accurate numbers. And the reason we don’t have accurate numbers is because in the census we are counted under White, and that needs to change.” ((NARRATOR)) Al-Dabbagh says a more accurate count would improve the tracking of civil rights violations and access to minority community business loans in Little Arabia. ((Genia Dulot, for VOA News, Anaheim, California))
- Transcript/Script USAGM SHARE ((PLAYBOOK SLUG: Little Arabia – Anaheim HEADLINE: California City Designates 'Little Arabia' Neighborhood TEASER: Arab American community promoting greater visibility PUBLISHED AT: 11/14/2022 at 11:20 am BYLINE: Genia Dulot CONTRIBUTOR: DATELINE: Anaheim, California VIDEOGRAPHER: Genia Dulot PRODUCER: Genia Dulot SCRIPT EDITORS: SKS, MAS VIDEO SOURCE (S): VOA PLATFORMS (mark with X): WEB __ TV X RADIO _X_ TRT: 2:28 VID APPROVED BY: MAS TYPE: TVPKG EDITOR NOTES: [[((INTRO)) California is home to the largest Arab American community in the United States. That growing economic and political visibility is evident in Southern California’s newly designated “Little Arabia” neighborhood. For VOA, Genia Dulot takes us there. ((Kareem Hawari, Kareem’s Falafel)) “Hi, I am Kareem, and this is “Kareems’s Restaurant”, my parents opened in 1996, I was born the same year, and they named me after it. Let’s go check it out.” ((NARRATOR)) Kareem Hawari’s parents opened one of the first Arab restaurants in the city of Anaheim, adjusting their recipes to fit the diverse taste of the community. ((Kareem Hawari, Kareem’s Falafel)) “Everybody has their own way of serving Arabic food. My mom, when she takes orders, she say: “Where are you from? Are you from Syria? Are you from Lebanon? Are you from Egypt? Then she changes her whole dialect, now she is speaking Egyptian Arabic, next customer is Syrian, now she is speaking Syrian dialect.” ((NARRATOR)) Alladin Khouraki’s parents opened the Altayebat Market in 1983. ((Aladdin Khouraki, Altayebat Market)) “It wasn’t really anything, when we first opened here. When I was a kid, it was nothing, and now it is bunch of restaurants, another store, clothing stores, just like a “Little Saigon” or “Little Korea”, those are recognized, I think it’s important, that we are recognized, this area is recognized as “Little Arabia”. ((NARRATOR)) The Anaheim neighborhood won that designation after years of campaigning by local business owners and Arab American community leaders. Resident Manal Saad says greater awareness makes a difference. ((Manal Saad, Anaheim Resident)) “Maybe because I wear a scarf or I am more by my look identify as an Arab, now people are like: ‘OK, I know more about her.’ And not just religion, but more about culture, which I feel like is important because when people look at me, they only see religion, but I want them to also know, that ‘hey, religion, there is also my culture, where my parents came from." ((NARRATOR)) The Arab American Institute Foundation says California’s community of nearly 400,000 Arab-Americans is the nation’s largest. But community leader Rashad Al-Dabbagh says they remain undercounted. ((Rashad Al-Dabbagh, Arab American Civic Council Executive Director)) “The estimate in Orange County is close to 90,000, but we don’t have accurate numbers. And the reason we don’t have accurate numbers is because in the census we are counted under White, and that needs to change.” ((NARRATOR)) Al-Dabbagh says a more accurate count would improve the tracking of civil rights violations and access to minority community business loans in Little Arabia. ((Genia Dulot, for VOA News, Anaheim, California))
- NewsML Media Topics Arts, Culture, Entertainment and Media
- Network VOA
- Embargo Date November 14, 2022 14:13 EST
- Byline Genia Dulot
- Brand / Language Service Voice of America