The Last Shall Be First, and The First Last: Here's an Arab name, but a Christian Arab. Did you know that most Arab-Americans are Christians? Only since 1990 have Muslim Arabs become a significant part of the Arab immigration stream to the US. Where would a Christian Arab immigrant likely come from? This family name probably has its origin in Lebanon, which would have been a part of Syria during Ottoman rule. The terminal y or ee sound marks it as typically Syrian. Syrians are fond of ending lots of words in ee, much to the surprise of Arabic speakers from the rest of the world. Evergreen Cemetery. [2016]
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