Algeria remains to this day, the only nation in Africa and the Arab world to have achieved such a distinction.

The Middle Ages have known many arabic writers who revolutionized the Arab world literature with authors like Ahmad al-Buni and Ibn Manzur and Ibn Khaldoun who wrote the Muqaddimah while staying in Algeria, and many others.

Prior to the emergence of the term Mizrahi, the term " Arab Jews " was sometimes used to describe Jews of the Arab world.

Dozens of large cities and hundreds of towns reflect pronounced urban character of the Arab world ; in most of the countries about 70 percent of people are urban dwellers.

The world of Arab music has long been dominated by Cairo, a cultural center, though musical innovation and regional styles abound from Morocco to Saudi Arabia.

Classical Arab music is extremely popular across the population, especially a small number of superstars known throughout the Arab world.

Arab world

Category: Arab world

* 1926 – Rawya Ateya, Egyptian politician and first female parliamentarian in the Arab world ( d. 1997 )

Amr Diab is one of the top singers in the Arab world and considered a living legend by many of his fans in the Arab world.

Aside from relations with other ASEAN states, Brunei also has extensive relations with the Islamic and Arab world.

As the Byzantine Empire was situated in-between the Islamic world and the Christian west, so did Constantinople act as Europe ’ s first line-of-defence against Arab advances in the 7th and 8th centuries.

Cairo ( ;, literally " The Vanquisher " or " The Conqueror "), is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Arab world and Africa, and its metropolitan area is the 16th largest in the world.

With an additional ten million inhabitants just outside the city, Cairo resides at the centre of the largest metropolitan area in Africa and the Arab World as well as the tenth-largest urban area in the world.

He incorporated the knowledge of Africa, the Indian Ocean and the Far East, gathered by Arab merchants and explorers with the information inherited from the classical geographers to create the most accurate map of the world up until his time.

As calls for reform spread through the Arab world in 2011, Moroccans joined in, but concessions by the ruler led to acceptance.

* Zam Zam Cola, popular in Iran and parts of the Arab world.

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.

Egypt has long been the cultural and informational centre of the Arab world, and Cairo is the region's largest publishing and broadcasting centre.

One sign of this came on December 2, 2003, when the Yemeni foreign ministry announced that " Yemen welcomes Iran's request to participate in the Arab League as an observer member.

The use of apricots, sugar, citrus, sweet melons, rice, saffron, raisins, nutmeg, clove, pepper, pine nuts, cinnamon ( along with fried preparations ) is a sign of Arab influences from the Arab domination of Sicily in the 10th and 11th centuries.

Contrarily, his detractors in Egypt and the Arab world believed Nasser's acceptance of the resolution was a sign that he wanted to negotiate the Palestinian issue, removing it from the top of his agenda.

In Arab countries, Africa and some parts of Asia it is done also by men and / or boys for friendship and / or a sign of respect.

Faisal ( right ) with Chaim Weizmann ( also wearing Arab dress as a sign of friendship ) in Syria, 1918.

It is possible that he might have been willing to sign a separate peace agreement with Israel, but for the Arab League's militant opposition.

Emir Faisal I and Chaim Weizmann ( left, also wearing Arab outfit as a sign of friendship )

File: Stop sign UAE. jpg | United Arab Emirates-with caption قف ( qif )

File: Stop sign ( United Arab Emirates ). svg | STOP sign in the United Arab Emirates.

File: UAE Old Stop Sign. svg | Old version of the STOP sign in the United Arab Emirates

Abedi Pele went on to sign a 2 year contract with Al Ain Club in the United Arab Emirates and was nominated as one of the best foreign players to play in the UAE league.

The dirham () ( sign: د. إ ; code: AED ) is the currency of the United Arab Emirates.

However, in January 2008 Total announced that they were to sign an agreement with Suez and Areva to submit a nuclear power plant project to the authorities in the United Arab Emirates.

As to the Palestinians, who are the descendants of those Arabs who migrated in the last 200 years, they have the right, if they want, to have their own state ... but not at the expense of the state of Israel .” In the wake of the Arab uprisings of 2011, he told Moment Magazine, " To sign an agreement you must have a partner who is dependent on the well-being of his people, which is what democracy means.

In order to make the film in Morocco, the present King of Morocco had to read the script and approve it and sign his name ... and nobody participating from the Arab side of things felt that the film was anti-Arab.

In spite of his alliance with the Soviet Union, Nasser would not sign a military alliance pact with the nation, made efforts to prevent the spread of Communism and other foreign influences throughout the Arab region by forming a civil union with Syria known as the United Arab Republic ( UAR )- a nation which he had hoped other Arab states would eventually join as well-in 1958 and was a founding father of the Non-Aligned Movement in 1961 ; though the union with Syria collapsed in 1961, Egypt would still be officially known as the United Arab Republic for a while longer.

As for the Arab mission itself, in the current age it would be “ to absorb the knowledge of the West and to join it with the views that have arisen in reaction to it, and to combine them in a new unity that will be a sign of the coming life, and that the Arabs will spread to the world as they spread their brilliant civilization in the past ages ”.

He is the so-called " Mad Arab " credited with authoring the imaginary book Kitab al-Azif ( the Necronomicon ), and as such is an integral part of Cthulhu Mythos lore.

The phrase " mad Arab ", sometimes with both words capitalized in Lovecraft's stories, is used so commonly before Alhazred's name that it almost constitutes a title.

A reference to the " Mad Arab " in Cthulhu Mythos fiction is invariably a synonym for Abdul Alhazred.

* Raymond Rambert: Raymond Rambert is a journalist who is visiting Oran to research a story on living conditions in the Arab quarter of the town.

* 2005 – Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani becomes Iraqi president ; Shiite Arab Ibrahim al-Jaafari is named premier the next day.

* 1948 – 1948 Arab-Israeli War: Haifa, a major port of Israel, is captured from Arab forces.

Arab culture is a term that draws together the common themes and overtones found in the Arab countries, especially those of the Middle-Eastern countries.

Arabic music is the music of Arab people or countries, especially those centered on the Arabian Peninsula.

Diab is the best-selling Arab recording artist of all time, according to Amr Diab Official website.

The Thâbit ibn Kurrah rule is a method for discovering amicable numbers invented in the tenth century by the Arab mathematician Thâbit ibn Kurrah.

Dubai in the United Arab Emirates is currently building the Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Crossing, which is scheduled for completion in 2012.

Brahui ( Urdu: براہوی ) or Brahvi ( براوی ) is a Dravidian language spoken by Brahui people of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran, and expatriate communities in Qatar, United Arab Emirates, and Iraq.

In certain Gulf Arab countries, " bachelor " can refer to men who are single as well as immigrant men married to a spouse residing in their country of origin ( due to the high added cost of sponsoring a spouse onsite ), and a colloquial term " executive bachelor " is also used in rental and sharing accommodation advertisements to indicate availability to white-collar bachelors in particular.

Although Arab culture is firmly established throughout, a small minority are Christian.

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.

This system is in widespread use in all Arab countries, but is accompanied by the Hijri system.