Mandaean Americans

In the United States, Mandaean communities are centered in:

• San Antonio, Texas (c. 2,500)[4]
• Austin, Texas[6]
• Amarillo, Texas, which has a mandi called the Mandi Al-Sheikh Abdallah Al-Sheikh Sam (Arabic: مندي الشيخ عبد الله الشيخ سام)[7]
• San Diego, California (including City Heights and El Cajon)[8]
• Los Angeles (including Winnetka, California)
• New York City
• Worcester, Massachusetts (c. 2,500)[1][2]
• Metro Detroit (including Warren, Michigan[9] and other suburbs)
• Chicago[10]
• other major metropolitan areas

There are also small communities of Mandaeans in:[11]

• Twin Falls, Idaho
• Wheaton, Illinois
• Phoenix, Arizona

There is a mandi in the Detroit metropolitan area.[12]

In 2007, The New York Times ran an op-ed piece in which Swarthmore professor Nathaniel Deutsch called for the Bush administration to take immediate action to preserve the community.[13] Iraqi Mandaeans were given refugee status by the US State Department in 2007. Since then, more than 2500 have entered the US, many settling in Worcester, Massachusetts.[14][15] The community in Worcester is believed to be the largest in the United States and the second largest community outside the Middle East.[2] About 2,600 Mandaeans from Iran have been settled in Texas since the Iraq War.[16]

Mandaean associations in the United States include:

• Mandaean Society of Washington DC[17]
• Mandaean Society of Massachusetts in Worcester, Massachusetts[2]
• Mandaean Association of Michigan in Warren, Michigan[18]
• Mandaean Association of California in Winnetka, California[19]
• Mandaean American Association in El Cajon, California
• Amarillo Mandaean Association in Amarillo, Texas[20]
• Mandaean Association of Texas in Pflugerville, Texas[21]

• Wisam Breegi, of the Mandaean World Congress[22]
• Suhaib Nashi, of the Mandaean Society of America in New Jersey[23]
• Lamia Abbas Amara (1929–2021), Mandaean-American poet who lived in San Diego

• Iranian Americans
• Iraqi Americans
• Assyrian Americans
• Kurdish Americans
• Mandaean Australians
• Mandaeans in Sweden
• Mandaeans in Iraq (Arabic Wikipedia)