There were so many Lebanese folks in BHM in the steel industry that until 1975 there was a Lebanese consulate in BHM and as late as the 90s there were multiple places to get 24 hr Mediterranean food

Purple onion and Al’s are still around but haven’t been 24hrs since covid. But yeah, 3 very large populations of Lebanese, Arabs, and Greeks. The Greeks opened the grocery stores at the turn of the 20th century.