Prior to the 2010 census, the Arab and Iranian communities in Southern California teamed up to spread a message: “Check it right, you ain’t white!” The tongue-in-cheek campaign encouraged people to choose “some other race” and sought to combat the notion that Arabs and Iranians are ...
If you call the Iranian people “Arabs”, it will most certainly annoy them.Iranians are proud of their glorious ancestry, nationality and culture and are very touchy on this subject! This may have been amplified sincePersiansand Arabs have been rivals throughout the history. Clarifing the app...
Who are the original Arab? The Arabs were originallythe people of the Arabian desert. Converted to Islam in the 7th century A.D., they conquered the Middle East from the Sassanian and Byzantine empires and established a succession of Arab-Islamic Middle Eastern empires from Spain to Central ...
Are Iranians Arabs? With the exception of various minority ethnic groups in Iran (one of which is Arab), Iranians are Persian. ... Persian and Arab histories only merge in the 7th century with the Islamic conquest of Persia. Is Iran Sunni or Shia? According to some surveys, almost all...
Evolution of the Name Iran Location of Ancient Iran Growth of Iran & Formation of Persia Migration of Ancient Iranians & Growth of Greater Iran Extent of Iran. Aryana Formation of Persia Persian Rise to Dominance Over the Aryan Nations First Use of the Name Iran Continued Western Use of the...
Rather, the inhabitants of Khazaria were of diverse origins - Iranians, Turks, Slavs, Greeks, Goths, and others - and we cannot expect them to have always followed the faith of the ruling Khazar tribe, because the Khazar king never forced the religion of Judaism upon them. It seems that...
Neither side is likely to stop the bombing Yemen or Syria or Iraq (why do we still have troops there?). And the Iranians? Who can forget John McCains rendition of “bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb bomb Iran…” I mean, Israel has a right to defend itself, right? Neither party wants to ...
I mean, Putin is going to hold an election, the Iranians. There used to be an old joke about Mubarak when he was the president of Egypt, which is that he would hold the election and they would come to him and say, “Your Excellency, we have good news. The election has taken place...
He points out that an Iranian cartel funnelling narcotics from Afghanistan “might be angered that Saudi-backed Sunni militant gangs in Iraq and Syria have grabbed smuggling routes, cutting out the Iranians.” The Iranians, on their part, are incensed at Washington’s allegations and have ...
Are Iranians Arabs? Given its location in the Middle East, Muslim majority, and language which resembles Arabic, Iran is often mislabeled as an Arab nation. A cognate of “aryan,” Iran means “land of the Aryans” and is excluded from the list of Arab League nations in the Middle East...