Yalla Vote! Arab Americans Push the Vote in Michigan

While California leads in the largest Arab population in the U.S., the Detroit Metropolitan Area

comes in a close second. Dearborn, specifically, is home to the highest concentration of

Arabs outside of the Middle East. To this day, the Arab population does not have a separate

category in the census, and Arabs are required to categorize themselves as “white,” or “other.”

 

In preparation of the election, Bayan, a young Arab-American woman pushes to get

the community out to vote. As a young 21-year-old activist, Bayan thinks that

the Arab-American vote is critical to help change the divisive and racist rhetoric

that has developed since 9/11, but has been exacerbated since the start of the elections.