Arab means belonging or relating to Arabs or to their countries or customs. On the surface, it appears little has changed in the Arab world. Arabic. someone whose language is Arabic and whose family comes from, or originally came from the Middle East or North Africa (Arabus, from Araps, from 'Arab). Any member of the Arabic-speaking peoples native to the Middle East and North Africa. Before the spread of Islam in the 630s, the term referred to the largely nomadic Semitic peoples of the Arabian Peninsula; it came to apply to Arabic-speaking peoples from Africa's Mauritanian and Moroccan coasts east to Iraq and the Arabian Peninsula and south to The Sudan after their acceptance of Islam. Traditionally, some Arabs are desert-dwelling pastoral nomads (see Bedouin), whereas others live by oases and in small, isolated farming villages. While most Arabs are Muslims, some are Christian. The term has also been used in a political sense by Arab nationalists to describe a greater sociolinguistic or ethnic ideal ("the Arab nation"). See also Pan-Arabism. United Arab Republic Arab Republic of Egypt Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriyyah Syrian Arab Republic Arab League League of Arab States Arab Israeli wars Saharan Arab Democratic Republic Shatt al Arab Arab Israeli War of 1967 United Arab Emirates
a member of a Semitic people originally from the Arabian peninsula and surrounding territories who speaks Arabic and who inhabits much of the Middle East and northern Africa
A person whose origins may be traced to an Arab cultural, ethnic or linguistic heritage Countries such as Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Syria, Jordan have predominantly Arab populations There are some countries in the Middle East, such as Iran or Turkey, whose populations are not predominantly Arab Other countries such as Egypt, Libya, Morocco have mixed Arab and North African populations Arabs belong to many different religions Throughout the Middle East, millions of Arab Christians and Arab Jews live peacefully with their Arab Muslim neighbors