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Arab and League
Category: Ethnic groups in the Arab League
Comoros also is a member of the African Union, the Arab League, the European Development Fund, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Indian Ocean Commission, and the African Development Bank.
In October 1993, Comoros joined the League of Arab States, after having been rejected when it applied for membership initially in 1977.
Many international media, businesses, and organizations have regional headquarters in the city ; the Arab League has had its headquarters in Cairo for most of its existence.
Concurrently, Cairo has established itself as a political and economic hub for North Africa and the Arab World, with many multinational businesses and organizations, including the Arab League, operating out of the city.
Djibouti is a member of La Francophonie ( since 1977 ), the Arab League, as well as the Organization of African Unity ( OAU ), and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development ( IGAD ).
The permanent headquarters for the League of Arab States ( The Arab League ) is located in Cairo. The Secretary General of the League has traditionally been an Egyptian.
Former Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Moussa is the present Secretary General of the Arab League.
The Arab League moved out of Egypt to Tunis in 1978 as a protest at the peace treaty with Israel, but returned in 1989.
The Arab League headquarters is in Cairo, and the Secretary General of the League is traditionally an Egyptian.
Former Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Al-Araby is the present Secretary General of the Arab League.
Egypt was subsequently ostracized by other Arab states and ejected from the Arab League from 1979 to 1989.
Both being predominantly Arab countries they are members of the Arab League, GAFTA, WTO, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, the Council of Arab Economic Unity and the United Nations.
Eritrea is a member of the African Union ( AU ), the successor of the Organization of African Unity ( OAU ) and is an observing member of the Arab League.

Arab and Arabic
Modern-day Arab telephone keypad with two forms of Arabic numerals: Western Arabic / European numerals on the left and Eastern Arabic numerals on the right
The numeral system came to be known to both the Persian mathematician Al-Khwarizmi, whose book On the Calculation with Hindu Numerals written about 825 in Arabic, and the Arab mathematician Al-Kindi, who wrote four volumes, " On the Use of the Indian Numerals " ( Ketab fi Isti ' mal al -' Adad al-Hindi ) about 830.
Arabic music is the music of Arab people or countries, especially those centered on the Arabian Peninsula.
As early as the 8th century, Arab scholars were translating the works of the Greek geographers into Arabic.
In Lebanon, the right-wing Guardians of the Cedars, a fiercely nationalistic ( mainly Christian ) political party which opposes the country's ties to the Arab world, is agitating for " Lebanese " to be recognized as a distinct language from Arabic and not merely a dialect, and has even advocated replacing the Arabic alphabet with a revival of the ancient Phoenician alphabet, which lacks a number of characters to write typical Arabic phonemes present in Lebanese, and lost by Phoenician ( and Hebrew ) in the second millennium BC.
The varieties of Arabic are considerably different from each other-especially those spoken in North Africa ( Maghreb ) from those of the Middle East ( the Mashriq in the broad definition including Egypt and Sudan )-and had there been the political will in the different Arab countries to cut themselves off from each other, the case could have been made to declare these varieties as separate languages.
However, in adherence to the ideas of Arab Nationalism, the Arab countries prefer to give preference to the Literary Arabic which is common to all of them, conduct much of their political, cultural and religious life in it ( adherence to Islam ), and refrain from declaring each country's specific variety to be a separate language, because Literary Arabic is the liturgical language of Islam and the language of the Islamic sacred book, the Qur ' an.
However, the symbols used in different areas are not identical ; for instance, Western Arabic numerals ( from which the European numerals are derived ) differ from the forms used by other Arab cultures.
In the Abbasid period ( after 750 AD ) Arab Muslims began to be interested in Greek scientific and medical texts for the first time, and had some of Galen's texts translated into Arabic, often by Syrian Christian scholars ( see below ).
The translation of 129 works of ancient Greek physician Galen into Arabic by Hunayn ibn Ishaq and his assistants, and in particular Galen's insistence on a rational systematic approach to medicine, set the template for Islamic medicine, which rapidly spread throughout the Arab Empire.
The written history of Madagascar began with the Arabs, who established trading posts along the northwest coast by at least the 10th century and introduced Islam, the Arabic script ( used to transcribe the Malagasy language in a form of writing known as sorabe ), Arab astrology and other cultural elements.
Recent studies make clear no significant genetic differences exist between Arabic and non-Arabic speaking populations, highlighting that in common with most of the Arab World, Arabization was mainly via acculturation of indigenous populations over time and intermarriage between Arabs and Berbers.
The Arabic name for Nazareth is an-Nāṣira, and Jesus (, Yasū ` or, ` Īsā ) is also called an-Nāṣirī, reflecting the Arab tradition of according people a nisba, a name denoting from whence a person comes in either geographical or tribal terms.
The Jerusalem Talmud records that itrium, a kind of boiled dough, was common in Palestine from the 3rd to 5th centuries AD, A dictionary compiled by the 9th century Arab physician and lexicographer Isho bar Ali defines itriyya, the Arabic cognate, as string-like shapes made of semolina and dried before cooking.
Zaydan had critical influence on acceptance of a modernized version of the Quranic Arabic language as the universal written and official language throughout the Arab world, instead of adoption of local dialects in the various countries.
* The Levantine Manakish ( Arabic: ma ' ujnāt ) and Sfiha ( Arabic: laḥm bi ' ajīn ; also Arab pizza ) are dishes similar to pizza.

League and Arabic
For example, it was the term used in the West to refer to the leaders of Kuwait's ruling al-Sabah dynasty, even though the monarchic style was actually Hakim ( Arabic ' ruler ') until June 19, 1961, when Kuwait joined the Arab League, and the title Emir was adopted.
The Moslem League however insisted on Arabic and Tigrinya.
According to the Minutes of the Ninth Session of the League of Nations ' Permanent Mandate Commission, " Southern Syria " was suggested as the name of the Mandate for Palestine in the Arabic language.
** African Heritage, Arabic Club, Chinese Club, French Club, German Club, International Cultural Association ( ICA ), Junior Classical League, Muslim Student Association, Spanish Club, and Indian Student Association.
The game will feature the Saudi Professional League, the first to represent Arabic football in the series.
Older Arab League Flags have the chaines in red or black, the Arabic script in Black or Gold with green or white Crescents, usually adopted through the 50's and 70's.
The word Arab is most commonly used to refer to any person of the Middle East or North Africa whose mother tongue is the Arabic language ; it is used in this sense for such terms as Arab World, Arab League.
Merson also has commentated on Arabic channels, again covering the Premier League.
* Arab League: Disney Channel, Cartoon Network Arabic
Amal also run from its headquarters at Rue Hamra, in association with Zahir al-Khatib ’ s Workers League a joint television service ( Arabic: Al-Machriq ).
Nabil Elaraby ( Arabic: نبيل العربي ) ( born 15 March 1935 ) is an Egyptian diplomat, currently the Secretary-General of the Arab League having been elected on 15 May 2011.
The League states its functions and objectives to be the following: advocating the application of the rules of the Shariah either by individuals, groups, or states ; coordinating the efforts of Islamic preachers the world over ; developing methods for the propagation of Islam, peacefully in accord with the Qur ' an and the Sunnah ; education and culture ; holding symposia, rehabilitation, and refresher courses ; bringing intellectuals and opinion leaders together during the pilgrimage season with the aim of fostering closer relations among them and urging them to develop practical methods of raising the standard of Muslims in the world ; overseeing the activities of the Fiqh Council and lending it the support it needs to find Islamic solutions to contemporary problems ; promoting activities that aim at spreading the Arabic language and raising the standard of teaching to both Arabs and non-Arabs ; setting up branch offices as well as Islamic centers to serve the purpose of Islam ; extending urgent relief to Muslims affected by war and natural disasters ; and making the activities and construction of mosques more effective.

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