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Arwi language (a mixture of Arabic and Tamil) uses the Arabic script together with the addition of 13 letters. It is mainly used in Sri Lanka and the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu for religious purposes. Arwi language is the language of Tamil Muslims. Arabi Malayalam is Malayalam written in the Arabic script.
Arab identity (Arabic: الهوية العربية) is the objective or subjective state of perceiving oneself as an Arab and as relating to being Arab. Like other cultural identities , it relies on a common culture, a traditional lineage, the common land in history, shared experiences including underlying conflicts and confrontations.
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The Mu'allaqat ( Arabic: المعلقات, [al-muʕallaqaːt]) is the name given to a series of seven Arabic poems or qasida that originated before the time of Islam. Each poem in the set has a different author, and is considered to be their best work. Mu'allaqat means "The Suspended Odes" or "The Hanging Poems," and comes from the poems being ...
Arab Americans ( Arabic: عَرَبٌ أَمْرِيكِا, romanized : ʻArab Amrīkā or Arabic: العرب الأمريكيون, romanized: al-ʻArab al-Amrīkīyūn) are Americans of Arab ancestry. Arab Americans trace ancestry to any of the various waves of immigrants from the Arab world.
Synopsis. Write Down, I Am an Arab tells the story of Mahmoud Darwish, the Palestinian national poet and one of the most influential writers of the Arab world, whose writing shaped Palestinian identity and motivated generations of Palestinians to the cause of national liberation. Darwish was born in the Western Galilee in the village al-Birwa ...
Flag map of the Arab World. Flags of Arab countries, territories, and organisations usually include the color green, which is a symbol of Islam as well as an emblem of purity, fertility and peace. Common colors in Arab flags are Pan-Arab colors (red, black, white and green); common symbols include stars, crescents and the Shahada.
The Arab world straddles two continents, Africa and Asia. It is mainly oriented along an east–west axis. [citation needed] The West Asian Arab region comprises the Arabian Peninsula, most of the Levant (excluding Cyprus and Israel), most of Mesopotamia (excluding parts of Turkey and Iran) and the Persian Gulf region.