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Arab Christians
Arab Christians are Arabic-speaking Christians of the Arab world, present since pre-Islamic tribes such as the Ghassanids, organized in Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant churches, active in Arab nationalism, and declining through emigration.
Arab citizens of Israel
Arab citizens of Israel, also called Israeli Arabs, are Palestinian Arabs holding Israeli citizenship, mostly descendants of those who remained after the 1948 war, and the country's largest minority.
Arab diaspora
The Arab diaspora comprises people of Arab origin outside the Middle East and North Africa, formed by the mahjar migration of 1860-1930 to Brazil, Argentina, and the United States, later conflict-driven displacement such as Syria's 6.8 million refugees, and modern MENA identity debates in US census classification.
Arab migration into Nubia
Arab migration into Nubia was the centuries-long movement of Arabic-speaking tribes from Egypt and Arabia into the Christian Nubian kingdoms, beginning after the Muslim conquest of Egypt.
Arabella Churchill (charity founder)
Arabella Spencer Churchill (1949-2007), granddaughter of Sir Winston Churchill, co-founded the Glastonbury Festival and founded the children's charity Children's World in 1981; distinct from the 17th-century Arabella Churchill, mistress of James II.
Arabization (تعريب)
Arabization (تعريب, ta'rib) is the spread of Arabic language and identity and, as modern policy, the postcolonial replacement of English, French, and local languages with standard Arabic in states such as Algeria and Sudan, with mixed outcomes.
Arabs (العرب)
Arabs (العرب, al-ʿArab) are the Arabic-speaking peoples of the Arabian Peninsula, Middle East, and North Africa. The name first denoted northern nomad tribes, expanded to all peninsula inhabitants, and Arab identity was shaped in the early Islamic Caliphate.
Arain
Arain (آرائین), also Raeen or Rayeen, a large predominantly Muslim agricultural caste and biradari of the Punjab in Pakistan and India; about 1.1 million in the 1921 census, classified colonial 'agriculturalists', largely resettled in Pakistani Punjab after 1947.
Araneta family
Araneta family: Spanish-Filipino family of Basque origin, arrived Manila 1723 aboard La Sacra Familia. Known for Juan Anacleto Araneta's Negros revolt, Araneta Center in Cubao, Araneta Coliseum, and marriages into the Roxas, Marcos, and Arroyo clans.
Arapaho
Arapaho: a Plains Algonquian Native American people, also Hinono'eitiit speakers, split after 1864 into the Northern Arapaho of Wyoming's Wind River Reservation and the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma.
Arawak
Arawak is South America's largest indigenous language family in geographic extension. Its speakers met Columbus in 1492, and words like canoe, hammock, and hurricane entered European languages.
Arbëreshë people
Arbëreshë (Arbërisht speakers), also called Italo-Albanians: an Albanian ethnolinguistic minority of southern Italy, settled 15th–18th centuries after Skanderbeg's death, about 100,000 speakers in 50 villages, Eastern-rite Catholics distinct from Greece's Arvanites.
ARCS model
The ARCS model, created by John M. Keller in the early 1980s, is an instructional design framework organizing learner motivation into Attention, Relevance, Confidence, and Satisfaction.
Arfan Bhatti
Arfan Qadeer Bhatti (born 1977) is a Norwegian Islamist, former head of Profetens Ummah, convicted in 2026 to 30 years forvaring for complicity in the 25 June 2022 Oslo Pride terror shooting; he was extradited from Pakistan and has appealed.
Argentines
Argentines: the people of Argentina, population 46,234,830 (2022 census), shaped by mass European immigration (about 7 million arrivals, 1870–1930, nearly half Italian) and by the 2022 census's first Afrodescendant category and indigenous count of 2.9%.
Ariadne Getty
Ariadne Getty, Italian-born Getty-family philanthropist based in Los Angeles, leads the Ariadne Getty Foundation (formerly Fuserna, est. 2004), a major LGBTQ-rights funder via GLAAD and the Los Angeles LGBT Center.
Arikara
The Arikara (Sahnish) are a Caddoan-speaking Missouri River earth lodge people of North and South Dakota, closely related to the Pawnee, now one of the Three Affiliated Tribes at Fort Berthold.
Aristocracy (class)
Aristocracy (class): hereditary privileged elite, also meaning rule by a small privileged minority (Greek-derived term, cognate with nobility). Distinguished by inherited land, titles, and legal privilege; classical examples include Rome's patricians and Europe's medieval nobility.
Arlyn Phoenix
Arlyn Phoenix (born Arlyn Sharon Dunetz), known as Heart Phoenix, is an American peacebuilding and animal-rights activist and mother of actors River, Rain, Joaquin, Liberty, and Summer Phoenix.
Arma
The Arma are the descendants of Moroccan soldiers who crossed the Sahara in 1591, conquered the Songhai Empire, and ruled Timbuktu and the middle Niger for two centuries.
Armenian Americans
Armenian Americans, an estimated 460,000-person U.S. ancestry community (2022 ACS) centered in greater Los Angeles and California, descended largely from survivors of the 1915 Armenian genocide and counted via the census ancestry question.
Armenian diaspora (Հայկական սփյուռք)
Armenian diaspora (Հայկական սփյուռք, Haykakan spyurk): global population of ethnic Armenians outside Armenia, about 6 million people across Russia, the United States, France, and the Middle East, formed by ancient trade colonies and the 1915 genocide.
Armenian immigration to Argentina
Armenian immigration to Argentina is the settlement of Armenians mostly from the Ottoman Empire, with the main wave after the 1915 Armenian Genocide, concentrated in Buenos Aires.
Armenian repatriation to Soviet Armenia
Armenian repatriation to Soviet Armenia was a Soviet campaign, announced in 1945, that brought roughly 90,000 to 100,000 diaspora Armenians to the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic by 1949.
Armenians (հայեր)
Armenians (հայեր, hayer) are an ethnic group native to the Armenian Highlands of the South Caucasus who speak Armenian and chiefly follow the Armenian Apostolic Church, with a large worldwide diaspora dating from the 1915 genocide.
Armpit fetishism
Armpit fetishism, or maschalagnia, is sexual interest in the axilla, its hair, sweat, and odor. A paraphilia under DSM-5, it is a fetishistic disorder only with six months of recurrent arousal plus distress, impairment, or harm.
Aromanians
Aromanians (Armãni, Vlachs) are an Eastern Romance-speaking ethnic group of the southern Balkans, related to Romanians, dispersed across Greece, Albania, North Macedonia, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Romania, with an endangered language.
Aromanticism
Aromanticism, or being aro, is a romantic orientation marked by little or no romantic attraction, distinct from asexuality. Covers spectrum terms, amatonormativity, queerplatonic relationships, stigma research, and Ace Community Survey data.
Arora (ਅਰੋੜਾ)
Arora (ਅਰੋੜਾ), also Aror or Arore, a Punjabi Hindu and Sikh mercantile caste named after Aror (Rohri, Sindh); historically in south-west Punjab and Bahawalpur, 775,734 in the 1931 census, closely tied to the Khatris.
Arranged marriage
Arranged marriage, also called prearranged marriage, is a marriage in which families lead the choice of partner, while consent formally remains with the couple, distinguishing it from forced marriage.