The Old City is also home to the Ajuntament ( or Town Hall ), the Convent of the Cathedral and the Banys Àrabs.

Evidence of this are at the historical site Els Banys de la Reina ( the Queen's Baths ).

Arab Baths, the most significant remnants of the Moorish era of Andalusia, are the largest Arab baths preserved in Spain.

Della Valle described Anah as the chief Arab town on the Euphrates, an importance which it owes to its position on one of the routes from the west to Baghdad ; Texeira said that the power of its amir extended to Palmyra ( early 17th century ); but Olivier found the ruling prince with only twenty-five men in his service, the town becoming more depopulated every day from lack of protection from the Arabs of the desert.

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.

Egypt is one of the few countries in the Middle East, and the only Arab state, with a reconnaissance satellite and has launched another one in 2007.

According to one version of the Gospel of Barnabas, Jesus denied being the Messiah, claiming rather that the Messiah would be Ishmaelite ( i. e. Arab ):

Jordan is one of a small number of Arab countries to have named ambassadors to Iraq.

Following the Arab Spring at least one source has described Islamism as " increasingly interdependent " with democracy in much of the Arab Muslim world, such that " neither can now survive without the other.

Despite periodic repression, the Brotherhood has become one of the most influential movements in the Islamic world, particularly in the Arab world.

It is now one of the freest and most competitive economies in the Middle East scoring higher than the United Arab Emirates and Lebanon.

These wars largely ended with Arab defeats, with a fairly well-known commander, Abd ar-Rahman ibn Rabiah, perishing in one instance.

Lebanon reached the peak of its economic success in the mid-1960s – the country was seen as a bastion of economic strength by the oil-rich Persian Gulf Arab states, whose funds made Lebanon one of the world ’ s fastest growing economies.

The goal, according to the Libyan press, would be to assemble an army of one million men and women fighters to prepare for the great Arab battle – “ the battle of liberating Palestine, of toppling the reactionary regimes, of annihilating the borders, gates, and barriers between the countries of the Arab homeland, and of creating the single Arab Jamahiriya from the ocean to the gulf ”.

Following a 1998 Arab League meeting in which fellow Arab states decided not to challenge U. N. sanctions, Gaddafi announced that he was turning his back on pan-Arab ideas, one of the fundamental tenets of his philosophy.

Palestinian Arabs were not one of these Arab peoples.

Mali is among the ten poorest nations of the world, is one of the 37 Heavily Indebted Poor Countries, and is a major recipient of foreign aid from many sources, including multilateral organizations ( most significantly the World Bank, African Development Bank, and Arab Funds ), and bilateral programs funded by the European Union, France, United States, Canada, Netherlands, and Germany.

It was one of the first Arab and Islamic states to denounce the 9 / 11 terrorist attacks on the United States.

The Society of the Muslim Brothers (, often simply:, " the Muslim Brotherhood ", transliterated: ) is the Arab world's most influential and one of the largest Islamic movements, and is the largest political opposition organization in many Arab states.

Money gained from the exploitation of phosphate was put into the Nauru Phosphate Royalties Trust and gave Nauruans the second highest GDP Per Capita ( second only to the United Arab Emirates ) and one of the hightest standards of living in the Third World.

Pliny connected these two rivers as one long watercourse which flowed ( via lakes and underground sections ) into the Nile, a notion which persisted in the Arab and European worlds – and further added the Senegal River as the " Ger " – until the 19th century.

The few remaining Jews in the Arab countries reside mostly in Morocco and Tunisia.

Despite centuries-old cultural ties to the Arab World, the Chadian Government maintained few significant ties Arab states in North Africa or Southwest Asia in the 1980s.

The British demanded that the number of Jewish recruits match the number of Palestinian Arab recruits but very few Arabs were willing to fight for Britain.

Egypt, the most powerful Arab state of the time, was defeated in a mere few days.

In June 2008, the Iraqi government announced that the United Arab Emirates would send an ambassador to Baghdad within a few days.

Over the next few days the armies of Egypt, Trans-Jordan, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Lebanon, and Syria invaded Israel, and officially and militarily threatened to occupy the whole of the former Mandate territory, thereby starting the 1948 Arab – Israeli War, known in Israel as the War of Independence (, Milhamat HaAtzma ' ut ).

Therefore, while some Kuwaitis originally trace themselves back to Arab origin ( specifically the Najd area or Iraq ), other Kuwaitis can trace themselves back to Iran and a few other non-Arab origins.

There are a few Arab and Armenian Protestant Christians.

The early Arab army mainly consisted of camel-mounted infantry, alongside a few Bedouin cavalry.

However, his rule over Syria ended after only a few months, following the clash between his Syrian Arab forces and regular French forces at the Battle of Maysalun.

In 1950 the Syrian Arab Navy was established following the procurement of a few naval craft from France.

* United Arab Emirates one of the few countries that had recognized the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan, rescinds the recognition.

Saddam borrowed tens of billions of dollars from other Arab states and a few billions from elsewhere during the 1980s to fight Iran, mainly to prevent the expansion of Shiite radicalism.

In June 2008, the Iraqi government announced that the United Arab Emirates would send an ambassador to Baghdad within a few days.

Arafat, bowing to pressure from Arab governments, publicly condemned the hijackings and suspended the PFLP from any guerrilla actions for a few weeks.

The Nabataeans worshipped the Arab gods and goddesses of the pre-Islamic times as well as a few of their deified kings.

In one of the few instances where medieval infantry stood up against cavalry charges, the disciplined Frankish soldiers withstood the assaults, though according to Arab sources, the Arab cavalry several times broke into the interior of the Frankish square.

Arab immigrants, though few in number compared to the native Austronesians and Bantus, nevertheless left a lasting impression.

Syria was one of the few Arab countries to support Iran during the Iran – Iraq War, putting them at odds with other nations in the Arab League.

A few months later, under Muslim Arab pressure on the Turkish authorities in Jerusalem, Jews became forbidden by official decree to place benches and light candles at the Wall.