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Arab Bank
Arab Bank is a Jordanian public shareholding bank headquartered in Amman, founded in Jerusalem in 1930 by Abdul Hameed Shoman and operating in 28 countries.
Arab Barghouti
Arab Barghouti (Arabic: Arab al-Barghouthi) is a Palestinian campaigner, son of imprisoned Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, advocating his father's release and Palestinian prisoners' rights; he leads the Free Marwan campaign from Ramallah, an IT entrepreneur.
Arab campaigns of Ashurbanipal
The Arab campaigns of Ashurbanipal were wars fought by Ashurbanipal, king of Assyria, against Arab tribal groups, chiefly the Qedarites and Nabatu, on the empire's desert frontier from 652 BC.
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 Cold War
The Arab Cold War was the 1950s-1960s inter-Arab rivalry, also called the New Arab Cold War in later scholarship, pitting Nasser's Egypt and radical republics against Saudi-led conservative monarchies, fought through propaganda, coups, and the 1962-1970 Yemeni civil war.
Arab conquest of Egypt
The Arab conquest of Egypt was the military takeover of Byzantine Egypt by Rashidun forces led by 'Amr ibn al-'As between 639 and 642, ending Roman rule.
Arab conquest of the Caucasus
The Arab conquest of the Caucasus was the 7th- and 8th-century expansion of the Caliphate into Transcaucasia, first reaching Armenia in 640 and contested with the Khazars in the north.
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 fascism (الفاشية العربية)
Arab fascism (الفاشية العربية) denotes interwar Arab nationalist movements inspired by European fascism, chiefly the SSNP, al-Kata'ib, Young Egypt, and Iraq's Al-Muthanna Club current, and the contested historiography over how far fascism influenced Arab politics.
Arab Federation (الاتحاد العربي الهاشمي)
The Arab Federation (الاتحاد العربي الهاشمي), renamed Arab Union in March 1958, was the Hashemite confederation of Iraq and Jordan proclaimed 14 February 1958 against the UAR and dissolved by the 14 July 1958 Qasim coup.
Arab Higher Committee
The Arab Higher Committee (اللجنة العربية العليا) was the principal Palestinian Arab political body, formed in Jerusalem in 1936 and headed by Mufti Amin al-Husayni.
Arab Journalism Award
The Arab Journalism Award is an annual journalism prize for the Arab world, established in 1999 by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum and administered by the Dubai Press Club.
Arab Kingdom of Syria (المملكة العربية السورية)
Arab Kingdom of Syria (المملكة العربية السورية), also called Faisal's Syrian kingdom: unrecognized Hashemite monarchy proclaimed in Damascus 8 March 1920 under King Faisal I, ended by French victory at Maysalun 24 July 1920.
Arab League
The Arab League, formally the League of Arab States (جامعة الدول العربية), is a regional organization of twenty-two Arab states founded in Cairo in 1945.
Arab League boycott of Israel
Arab League boycott of Israel: state-administered primary, secondary, and tertiary boycott run from 1945 via the Damascus Central Boycott Office; largely unenforced since the 1994 GCC decision and superseded by normalization accords.
Arab League summit
An Arab League summit is a meeting of the League of Arab States' Council at summit level; 50 summits, 34 regular and 16 emergency, have been held since 1945.
Arab Liberation Flag
Arab Liberation Flag: the red-white-black horizontal tricolor introduced by Egypt's 1952 revolution, distinct from the 1916 Arab Revolt flag, later adopted with star, eagle, and triangle variants by Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Sudan, and Libya.
Arab Maghreb Union
The Arab Maghreb Union (AMU) is a five-member regional organization for Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Mauritania, founded in 1989 and largely inactive since 1994.
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.
Arab Monetary Fund
The Arab Monetary Fund (AMF) is a regional Arab financial institution, founded in 1976 and headquartered in Abu Dhabi, that lends to its 22 member states.
Arab National Bank
Arab National Bank (Arabic: البنك العربي الوطني) is a Saudi commercial bank headquartered in Riyadh, created in 1979 to take over Arab Bank's Saudi operations.
Arab nationalism
Arab nationalism (al-qawmiyya al-'arabiyya), ideology that Arabs form one nation bound by language and history; peaked under Nasser and the Ba'th, then declined against nation-state nationalism and Islamism.
Arab Peace Initiative (مبادرة السلام العربية)
Arab Peace Initiative (مبادرة السلام العربية), also called the Saudi Initiative: a 2002 Arab League peace plan proposed by Crown Prince Abdullah, offering Israel full normalization in exchange for 1967 withdrawal, a Palestinian state, and a refugee solution.
Arab province of Sind
The Arab province of Sind (सिंध) was created after Muhammad ibn Qasim's conquest of 712, ruled by governors and then amirs until Mahmud of Ghazni's 1010 invasion.
Arab Revolt (الثورة العربية)
The Arab Revolt (الثورة العربية), 1916-1918, was Sharif Hussein of Mecca's British-backed uprising against Ottoman rule, centered on the Hejaz railway and the capture of Aqaba and Damascus.
Arab Revolt of 1916
The Arab Revolt of 1916 (الثورة العربية الكبرى) was an uprising against Ottoman rule launched in the Hejaz by Sharif Husayn of Mecca in alliance with Britain.
Arab sieges of Constantinople
The Arab sieges of Constantinople (Πολιορκίες της Κωνσταντινουπόλεως από τους Άραβες) were two failed Umayyad attacks on the Byzantine capital, in 674–678 and 717–718, halted by Greek fire.
Arab slave trade in Maniema
The Arab slave trade in Maniema was the trade in enslaved people and ivory run by Swahili-Arab merchants in the eastern Congo from the mid-1800s.
Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region (حزب البعث العربي الاشتراكي في العراق)
Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region (حزب البعث العربي الاشتراكي في العراق): Iraqi branch of the pan-Arab Ba'ath movement, founded 1952, ruling Iraq 1968–2003 under al-Bakr and Saddam Hussein, abolished by CPA Order 1 in 2003.