Arabs
Although there are references to Arabs in ancient Assyrian and Babylonian inscriptions, which use the names Aribi or Arabu to identify the nomadic people living in northern Arabia, today the ter...
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The first cause for the rise of the Arabic civilization was that the Arab invasions politically united a massive portion of the world from Spain to India. This was a union that continued defeating p...
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Area: 83,600 sq km (32,280 sq mi)Population (2006 est.): 4,214,000, of whom about 850,000 are citizensCapital:
Abu Dhabi
Chief of state:
President Sheikh Khalifah ibn Zayid
Al Nahyan
Head of go...
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Berlin (dpa) - Ambassadors of the countries of the Arab League in
Berlin distanced themselves Wednesday from the German-Arab
Association (DAG), accusing it of being unable t...
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Riyadh (dpa) - Renewing faith in the Saudi-proposed land-for-peace
initiative, Arab leaders ended their two-day summit on Thursday with
a warning to their "peace partner" I...
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Arab countries should forge closer military and security ties, including nuclear cooperation, according to a document to be discussed at this week's Arab summit here.It was not immediately clear wh...
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The Israeli government on Sunday approved the appointment of the country's first Muslim Cabinet member, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office said.The appointment of Raleb Majadele as a minister with...
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Israel's Holocaust memorial launched an Arabic version of its Web site Thursday, including vivid photos of Nazi atrocities and video of survivors' testimony, to combat Holocaust denial in the Arab ...
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The Egyptian and Jordanian foreign ministers met Israeli leaders Wednesday to discuss an Arab League peace plan, originally presented in 2002 and recently revived. Here are the main points and Isra...
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CAIRO, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Arab foreign ministers held talks
on Friday aimed at forging a common position ahead of a
U.S.-sponsored peace conference next week on the creation of a
Palestinian state...
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The young Israeli is a volunteer working with severely disabled children. He helps them to eat, dress, go to the bathroom. For this, he says, he has been branded a traitor.That's because 20-year-ol...
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Saudi Arabia and other Arab nations grudgingly agreed Friday to attend next week's U.S.-sponsored Mideast peace conference, despite failing to get any guarantee of Israeli concessions.In a sign of ...
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