‘You feel like you’re part of America’: California’s historic Little Arabia finally recognized

After decades of activism, the neighborhood becomes the first Arab American enclave to get an official designation

Amin Nash's earliest childhood memory of Anaheim, California, was gripping his grandmother's hand as they walked into Altayebat Market on Brookhurst Street. His grandmother, who had been visiting from Iraq, could not speak English. But at Altayebat, she could speak freely in her mother tongue, Arabic.

This is for you, it's just a reminder to you, you are not too far from home," Nash recalled the owner of Altayebat telling his grandmother as he handed her a prayer rug.