Community advocates and merchants along the Brookhurst Street strip known as Little Arabia have long lobbied the city for an official designation.
“We’d like to be known as Little Arabia, like anybody else,” Elannan said. “It’s our culture … I think we deserve it. As a culture, we deserve to have that.”For those pushing for a Little Arabia designation, it’s been a long slog. Arab American community advocates say there have been efforts of one kind or another since the 1990s.
But he said until recently, before councilmember Jose Moreno put the item calling for a “Little Arabia District”“There’s a lot of excuses,” Al-Dabbagh said, “but we don’t know what the real reason is.” “It is opposition by delay,” Balma said. “I haven't been able to find any public opposition; the opposition comes from the council refusing to act, and their delay tactics are, like…'let's talk to the community more.’"
After a previous effort to put the Little Arabia designation on the city council agenda failed early last year, former Anaheim mayor Harry Sidhu Councilmember Jose Moreno told LAist that he’ll push for a vote in the meeting. He said the decision should be a no-brainer. She said she was surprised when she learned, after moving to Anaheim, that Little Arabia was not an official “little.”
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