little syria

The neighborhood in the “Lower West Side” of Manhattan was home to the country’s first Arabic-language newspaper and poet Kahlil Gibran.

Rapper and poet Omar Offendum tells the story of NYC's Little Syria neighborhood, which flourished between 1880 and 1940, in a three-performance run at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

"The story of Arabs in America, and their role in New York City specifically, has been sorely overlooked."