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Arabic-speaking ethnic and national groups, originally from the Arabian Peninsula
Most mainstream sources in the provided set treat Palestinians as part of the Semitic-speaking and Levantine peoples: historical summaries identify ancient Canaanites as “Semitic” inhabitants of Pales...
The recent surge of anger and violence is rooted less in sudden mass hatred than in a decade of competing governance projects, shifting alliances, and local grievances—especially , its security forces...
is overwhelmingly Twelver Shia—most sources put Shias at roughly 90% of the Muslim population and Sunnis at roughly 5–10%—but that national figure masks stark regional clustering: Sunnis are concentra...
The question "are Israeli people indigenous to Israel?" lacks a simple yes/no answer: modern Israelis include groups with varied historical ties to the land, and genetic, historical, and political evi...
Herodotus names and describes several coastal places now identified as Gaza, Ashkelon and Tyre (often under Greek forms like Cadytis or Jenysus), situating them in a coastal district he calls “Palesti...
The earliest historically attested inhabitants of the land conventionally called / were the of , a Semitic population present in the Bronze Age and described in classical sources and modern scholarshi...
Transjordan was included within the geographic scope of the British Mandate for Palestine at San Remo in 1920 but was administratively treated as a separate entity by Britain from about late 1920–1921...
spanning parts of , , and is unlikely, in current trajectories, to institutionalize as an ethnic‑religious state ; Kurdish politics across the region have produced strong strains of civic nationalism,...