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President Trump met with King Abdullah II of Jordan on Tuesday, where he doubled down on a controversial proposal for the U.S. to take over the Gaza Strip amid pressure he’s putting on ...
King Abdullah II of Jordan said Tuesday that Arab nations are unified in their opposition to displacing Palestinians from Gaza, following a meeting with President Trump in which the president ...
MORE: Details of what's in the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas. The identities of all the hostages being released by Hamas and Israel have yet to be made public.
The Levantines in Egypt (Egyptian Arabic: شوام مصر, romanized: Shawām Maṣr), also known as the Syro-Lebanese in Egypt (French: Syro-Libanais d'Égypte), are an ethnic minority group in Egypt. They are Egyptians who have ancestry originating from the Levant, mostly what is now Syria and Lebanon, but also including Palestine and Jordan.
Today, "Levant" is the term typically used by archaeologists and historians with reference to the history of the region. Scholars have adopted the term Levant to identify the region due to its being a "wider, yet relevant, cultural corpus" that does not have the "political overtones" of Syria-Palestine.
While the Arabs caused less destruction during their conquest than the Persians had few decades earlier, [8] part of the Levant's urban population fled upon the arrival of Muslim forces. [9] [8] This migration created vacancies that were later occupied by Arab Muslim migrants. [9] Both Arab and Syrian sources provide evidence of this emigration ...
Historian Rola El-Husseini sees Phoenicianism as an origin myth; [2] others note how it disregards the Arab cultural and linguistic influence on the Lebanese. They ascribe Phoenicianism to sectarian influences on Lebanese culture and the attempt by Lebanese Maronites to distance themselves from Arab culture and traditions.
As the Israel-Hamas war goes on, a group of Arab and Jewish Israelis have formed an unofficial civil guard in an attempt to prevent unrest in the city of Jaffa.