Our Mission

Based on a solid reputation and foundation, the American Federation of Ramallah, Palestine (AFRP) is the largest and oldest Arab-American organization in the United States.

Ten miles north of Jerusalem lay a town called Ramallah, “God’s Hill”. It is said that Jesus Christ passed through this town many times on his way to Jerusalem. Crusaders in the Holy Land, from the 11^th century to the 13^th century, built a fortified castle in Ramallah that overlooked the coastal plains of the Mediterranean Sea. In the 1900s, residents of Ramallah began to immigrate to the United States.

Today, there are over 30,000 people from Ramallah living in the United States. They are concentrated in such major cities as Washington, DC; Detroit, MI; San Francisco, CA; San Jose, CA; Jacksonville, FL; New York, NY; Los Angeles, CA; Houston, TX; Knoxville, TN; Lexington, KY; Milwaukee, WI; Cleveland, OH; and Greensboro, NC.

In all these cities, local clubs were formed making up the American Federation of Ramallah, Palestine (AFRP). The AFRP was established in 1959 and is headquartered in Detroit, Michigan.

Goals

- To perpetuate and enhance the close ties that exists among all Ramallah people through the formulation of local clubs

- To instill and nurture in the Ramallah youth in the United States their ancestral language, culture, and heritage

- To orient the American public with Arab culture and heritage and to promote better understanding of the political aspirations of the Palestinian people in particular and the Arabs in general

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