Arab people

Semitic ethnic group

Arab people are an ethnolinguistic group united by the Arabic language and shared cultural heritage, predominantly inhabiting the Middle East and North Africa.

The Arab world spans from Morocco to the Persian Gulf, encompassing diverse religious communities—mostly Muslim, but also Christian and other faiths.

Arab identity is primarily cultural and linguistic rather than racial, including people of varied ancestries who share Arabic as a mother tongue and identify with Arab civilization.

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Horn of Africa · Levant · poetry · Umayyad Caliphate · Sunni Islam · call to prayer · storytelling traditions · Maghreb · Gulf States · honor codes · henna · Mesopotamia · North Africa · dialects · coffee culture · falconry · Quran · keffiyeh

Opposites
ethnic/linguistic identity in the middle east and north africa

Arab peoplePersian people

Ethnic group from Iran

Turks · Turkish people · Iranians · Kurds · Berbers

historical imperial/colonial dynamics

Arab peopleEuropeans

People from that continent

Western powers

religious-ethnic identity in the Levant

Arab peopleIsraelis

Citizens of a Levantine nation

Jews · Druze · Maronites

Family

Arab, Arabs, Arabic, Arabian, Arabians, Arabization, people, peoples, peopled

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