* Arab League ( Arabic )

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.

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.

* July 26, 1946 The bombing of British administrative headquarters at the King David Hotel, killing 91 people — 28 British, 41 Arab, 17 Jewish, and 5 others.

Tunisia served as the headquarters of the Arab League from 1979 to 1990 and hosted the Palestine Liberation Organization's ( PLO ) headquarters from 1982 to 1993, when the PLO Executive Committee relocated to Jericho and the Palestinian Authority was established after the signing of the Oslo Accords.

Though advised by a pro-Fatah Jordanian divisional commander to withdraw his men and headquarters to the nearby hills, Arafat refused, stating, " We want to convince the world that there are those in the Arab world who will not withdraw or flee.

Here the groundwork for the gathering was prepared: the establishment of Arab cadres, recruited or imported from surrounding countries to spread the revolution, and provision of headquarters for such groups as the Islamic Front for the Liberation of Bahrain, the Iraqi Shi ' a movement, and Philippine Moro, Kuwaiti, Saudi, North African and Lebanese militant clerics.

A Tolerance Monument sculpted by Czesław Dźwigaj in collaboration with Michal Kubiak is situated on a hill marking the divide between Jewish Armon HaNetziv and Arab Jabel Mukaber, standing opposite the United Nations headquarters in Jerusalem in a park near Goldman Promenade.

The Arab League Military Committee, with headquarters in Damascus, was responsible for the movements and servicing of the Army.

* The Arab war ; confidential information for General headquarters from Gertrude Bell, being despatches from the secret " Arab bulletin.

In 1979 Tunis became the headquarters of the Arab League after the Camp David Accords and in 1982, it welcomed the Palestine Liberation Organization's ( PLO ) leadership in Tunis, after it had been ousted from Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War.

The Arab headquarters were in the center of the city, near the port and the railway depot.

The first edition of the Asia Cup was held in 1984 in Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, the location of the headquarters of the newly formed Asian Cricket Council.

As a preliminary move, the Arab Northern Army would attack the railway junction at Deraa beginning on 16 September, to interrupt the Ottoman lines of communication and distract the Yildirim headquarters.

The headquarters of their ' Arab Deterrent Force ' was at the Bekaa market town of Chtaura and their troops were billetted all the way up the valley, around the Greek Orthodox town of Zahle-where Cody and I had seen the Syrians and Phalangists cooperating in 1976-at the airbase at Rayak, in Baalbek and Hermel.

On the same day, Abu Dhabi TV was also hit, " which means the US forces attacked all the main western and Arab media headquarters in the space of just one day.

Many of the Arab reporters for Al Jazeera saw this as an intentional attack on their personnel, but the United States claimed later that day that the death had been an accident, and that hostile fire had been seen originating from the Al Jazeera headquarters.

During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Fawzi al-Qawuqji led 750 Arab Liberation Army ( ALA ) soldiers to Tubas from Jordan and set up base there ; Tubas would serve as the ALA's headquarters in central Palestine throughout the war.

Shortly after the 1948 Arab – Israeli War, the museum became a secondary headquarters of the Jordanian Department of Antiquities, headed by Gerald Lankester Harding until 1956.

*: In May 2000, Israel, though naturally a part of the Asian Group in geographical terms but with membership blocked by Arab countries, became a WEOG full member, on a temporary basis ( subject to renewal ), in WEOG's headquarters in the US, thereby enabling it to put forward candidates for election to various UN General Assembly bodies.

Juran Institute headquarters are based in Southbury, Connecticut with offices in India, China, Egypt, Germany, Netherlands, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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