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Arabia: Ethnic groups ce, was the religious force that united the desert subsistence nomads—the Traditional Arab values were modified in the 20th century by the pressures of urbanization, industrialization, detribalization, and Western influence. Nearly half of Muslim Arabs live in cities and towns, where family and tribal ties tend to break down, where women, as well as men, have greater educational and employment opportunity, and where the newly emerging middle class of technicians, professionals, and The majority of Arabs continue to live in small, isolated farming villages, where traditional values and occupations prevail, including the subservience and home seclusion ( The pastoral desert nomad, the traditional ideal of Arab culture, makes up barely 5 percent of the modern Arab population. Many of the remaining nomads have given up full-time subsistence pastoralism to become village agriculturists or stock breeders, or to find employment with oil companies or other employers in the towns and cities.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s appearance at the Arab League summit on May 19 capped a monthslong effort to reintegrate the dictator, and his country, into the politics and economics of the Middle East. This process wasn’t encouraged by the United States, which continued to oppose Assad—but it wasn't exclusively the product of a decline in U.S. influence in the region relative to China and Russia, either. Instead, it’s been the result of a shift in priorities among countries in the region. Though some regional actors, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s appearance at the Arab League summit on May 19 capped a monthslong effort to reintegrate the dictator, and his country, into the politics and economics of the Middle East. This process wasn’t encouraged by the United States, which continued to oppose Assad—but it wasn’t exclusively the product of a decline in U.S. influence in the region relative to China and Russia, either. Instead, it’s been the result of a shift in priorities among countries in the region. Though some regional actors, Some nations in the region, such as Oman and Iraq, never cut ties with the Assad regime. Of those who did, the UAE began its campaign for normalization back in 2018, when it “At a time in which Arab states such as the UAE and Saudi Arabia are asserting their autonomy from Washington and diversifying their partnerships on the international stage, Abu Dhabi [UAE] and Riyadh’s relationships with Russia are increasingly important to the Emir...

• Afrikaans • Alemannisch • العربية • Aragonés • ܐܪܡܝܐ • Արեւմտահայերէն • Asturianu • বাংলা • Беларуская • Беларуская (тарашкевіца) • Български • Bosanski • Català • Čeština • Cymraeg • Dansk • الدارجة • Deutsch • Diné bizaad • Eesti • Español • Esperanto • Euskara • فارسی • Français • Frysk • Gagauz • Galego • 한국어 • Հայերեն • Hrvatski • Bahasa Indonesia • Italiano • עברית • Jawa • ქართული • Kongo • Latviešu • Lietuvių • Magyar • മലയാളം • मराठी • مصرى • Bahasa Melayu • မြန်မာဘာသာ • Nederlands • 日本語 • Norsk bokmål • Norsk nynorsk • Occitan • Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча • ਪੰਜਾਬੀ • پنجابی • پښتو • Polski • Português • Română • Русский • Shqip • සිංහල • Simple English • Slovenščina • Словѣньскъ / ⰔⰎⰑⰂⰡⰐⰠⰔⰍⰟ • Soomaaliga • کوردی • Српски / srpski • Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски • Sunda • Suomi • Svenska • Taqbaylit • ไทย • Тоҷикӣ • Türkçe • Українська • اردو • ئۇيغۇرچە / Uyghurche • Tiếng Việt • Walon • 吴语 • ייִדיש • 粵語 • 中文 List • The Arab world ( اَلْعَالَمُ الْعَرَبِيُّ al-ʿālam al-ʿarabī), formally the Arab homeland ( اَلْوَطَنُ الْعَرَبِيُّ al-waṭan al-ʿarabī), Arab nation ( اَلْأُمَّةُ الْعَرَبِيَّةُ al-ummah al-ʿarabīyyah), the Arabsphere, or the Arab states, The Arab world is at its minimum defined as the 19 states where Arabic is natively spoken. According to the In Terminology In page 9 of Best Divisions for Knowledge of the Regions, 10th century Arab geographer Arab regions ( أَقَالِيمُ ٱلْعَرَبِ) to refer to the lands of the Definition The linguistic and political denotat...

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• Acèh • Адыгабзэ • Afrikaans • Alemannisch • Ænglisc • العربية • Aragonés • ܐܪܡܝܐ • Asturianu • Авар • Azərbaycanca • تۆرکجه • Basa Bali • বাংলা • Banjar • Bân-lâm-gú • Башҡортса • Беларуская • Беларуская (тарашкевіца) • Български • བོད་ཡིག • Bosanski • Brezhoneg • Буряад • Català • Чӑвашла • Cebuano • Čeština • ChiShona • Cymraeg • Dagbanli • Dansk • Deutsch • Diné bizaad • Eesti • Ελληνικά • Español • Esperanto • Euskara • فارسی • Føroyskt • Français • Frysk • Gaeilge • Galego • ГӀалгӀай • 한국어 • Hausa • Հայերեն • हिन्दी • Hrvatski • Bahasa Hulontalo • Bahasa Indonesia • Ирон • Íslenska • Italiano • עברית • ქართული • Қазақша • Kiswahili • Kurdî • Кыргызча • Latina • Latviešu • Lietuvių • Ligure • Limburgs • Magyar • Македонски • Malagasy • മലയാളം • Malti • მარგალური • مصرى • مازِرونی • Bahasa Melayu • ꯃꯤꯇꯩ ꯂꯣꯟ • Minangkabau • Монгол • မြန်မာဘာသာ • Nederlands • 日本語 • Нохчийн • Norsk bokmål • Norsk nynorsk • Occitan • Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча • ਪੰਜਾਬੀ • پنجابی • پښتو • Polski • Português • Română • Русиньскый • Русский • Саха тыла • Sardu • Scots • Shqip • Simple English • سنڌي • Slovenčina • Slovenščina • Soomaaliga • کوردی • Српски / srpski • Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски • Sunda • Suomi • Svenska • Tagalog • தமிழ் • Taqbaylit • Татарча / tatarça • ไทย • Тоҷикӣ • Türkçe • Українська • اردو • ئۇيغۇرچە / Uyghurche • Tiếng Việt • Wayuunaiki • Winaray • Wolof • 吴语 • ייִדיש • Yorùbá • 粵語 • Zazaki • Zeêuws • 中文 • Arab League: 350,000,000 • c. 50 million Regions with significant p...

BEIRUT— A little white pill has given Western governments have been frustrated by the red-carpet treatment Arab countries have given Assad, fearing that their reconciliation will undermine the push for an end to Syria’s long-running civil war. But for Arab states, halting the Captagon trade is a high priority. Hundreds of millions of pills have been smuggled over the years into Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and other gulf Arab countries, where the drug is used recreationally and by people with physically demanding jobs to keep them alert. Analysts say Assad probably hopes that by making even limited gestures against the drug he can gain reconstruction money, further integration in the region and even pressure for an end to Western sanctions. The vast majority of the world’s Captagon is produced in Syria, with smaller production in neighboring Lebanon. Western governments estimate the illegal trade in the pills generates billions of dollars. In March 2013, with almost 100,000 dead in the then-two-year Syrian revolution against President Bashar Assad, a Muslim cleric who headed the Syrian opposition was welcomed to take the country’s seat at the annual summit of Arab leaders. The United States, Britain and European Union accuse Assad, his family and allies, including Lebanon’s militant group Hezbollah, of facilitating and profiting from the trade. It has given Assad’s rule a massive financial lifeline at a time when the Syrian economy is crumbling, they say. The Syrian governme...

Arabia: Ethnic groups ce, was the religious force that united the desert subsistence nomads—the Traditional Arab values were modified in the 20th century by the pressures of urbanization, industrialization, detribalization, and Western influence. Nearly half of Muslim Arabs live in cities and towns, where family and tribal ties tend to break down, where women, as well as men, have greater educational and employment opportunity, and where the newly emerging middle class of technicians, professionals, and The majority of Arabs continue to live in small, isolated farming villages, where traditional values and occupations prevail, including the subservience and home seclusion ( The pastoral desert nomad, the traditional ideal of Arab culture, makes up barely 5 percent of the modern Arab population. Many of the remaining nomads have given up full-time subsistence pastoralism to become village agriculturists or stock breeders, or to find employment with oil companies or other employers in the towns and cities.

• Afrikaans • Alemannisch • العربية • Aragonés • ܐܪܡܝܐ • Արեւմտահայերէն • Asturianu • বাংলা • Беларуская • Беларуская (тарашкевіца) • Български • Bosanski • Català • Čeština • Cymraeg • Dansk • الدارجة • Deutsch • Diné bizaad • Eesti • Español • Esperanto • Euskara • فارسی • Français • Frysk • Gagauz • Galego • 한국어 • Հայերեն • Hrvatski • Bahasa Indonesia • Italiano • עברית • Jawa • ქართული • Kongo • Latviešu • Lietuvių • Magyar • മലയാളം • मराठी • مصرى • Bahasa Melayu • မြန်မာဘာသာ • Nederlands • 日本語 • Norsk bokmål • Norsk nynorsk • Occitan • Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча • ਪੰਜਾਬੀ • پنجابی • پښتو • Polski • Português • Română • Русский • Shqip • සිංහල • Simple English • Slovenščina • Словѣньскъ / ⰔⰎⰑⰂⰡⰐⰠⰔⰍⰟ • Soomaaliga • کوردی • Српски / srpski • Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски • Sunda • Suomi • Svenska • Taqbaylit • ไทย • Тоҷикӣ • Türkçe • Українська • اردو • ئۇيغۇرچە / Uyghurche • Tiếng Việt • Walon • 吴语 • ייִדיש • 粵語 • 中文 List • The Arab world ( اَلْعَالَمُ الْعَرَبِيُّ al-ʿālam al-ʿarabī), formally the Arab homeland ( اَلْوَطَنُ الْعَرَبِيُّ al-waṭan al-ʿarabī), Arab nation ( اَلْأُمَّةُ الْعَرَبِيَّةُ al-ummah al-ʿarabīyyah), the Arabsphere, or the Arab states, The Arab world is at its minimum defined as the 19 states where Arabic is natively spoken. According to the In Terminology In page 9 of Best Divisions for Knowledge of the Regions, 10th century Arab geographer Arab regions ( أَقَالِيمُ ٱلْعَرَبِ) to refer to the lands of the Definition The linguistic and political denotat...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s appearance at the Arab League summit on May 19 capped a monthslong effort to reintegrate the dictator, and his country, into the politics and economics of the Middle East. This process wasn’t encouraged by the United States, which continued to oppose Assad—but it wasn't exclusively the product of a decline in U.S. influence in the region relative to China and Russia, either. Instead, it’s been the result of a shift in priorities among countries in the region. Though some regional actors, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s appearance at the Arab League summit on May 19 capped a monthslong effort to reintegrate the dictator, and his country, into the politics and economics of the Middle East. This process wasn’t encouraged by the United States, which continued to oppose Assad—but it wasn’t exclusively the product of a decline in U.S. influence in the region relative to China and Russia, either. Instead, it’s been the result of a shift in priorities among countries in the region. Though some regional actors, Some nations in the region, such as Oman and Iraq, never cut ties with the Assad regime. Of those who did, the UAE began its campaign for normalization back in 2018, when it “At a time in which Arab states such as the UAE and Saudi Arabia are asserting their autonomy from Washington and diversifying their partnerships on the international stage, Abu Dhabi [UAE] and Riyadh’s relationships with Russia are increasingly important to the Emir...

• Acèh • Адыгабзэ • Afrikaans • Alemannisch • Ænglisc • العربية • Aragonés • ܐܪܡܝܐ • Asturianu • Авар • Azərbaycanca • تۆرکجه • Basa Bali • বাংলা • Banjar • Bân-lâm-gú • Башҡортса • Беларуская • Беларуская (тарашкевіца) • Български • བོད་ཡིག • Bosanski • Brezhoneg • Буряад • Català • Чӑвашла • Cebuano • Čeština • ChiShona • Cymraeg • Dagbanli • Dansk • Deutsch • Diné bizaad • Eesti • Ελληνικά • Español • Esperanto • Euskara • فارسی • Føroyskt • Français • Frysk • Gaeilge • Galego • ГӀалгӀай • 한국어 • Hausa • Հայերեն • हिन्दी • Hrvatski • Bahasa Hulontalo • Bahasa Indonesia • Ирон • Íslenska • Italiano • עברית • ქართული • Қазақша • Kiswahili • Kurdî • Кыргызча • Latina • Latviešu • Lietuvių • Ligure • Limburgs • Magyar • Македонски • Malagasy • മലയാളം • Malti • მარგალური • مصرى • مازِرونی • Bahasa Melayu • ꯃꯤꯇꯩ ꯂꯣꯟ • Minangkabau • Монгол • မြန်မာဘာသာ • Nederlands • 日本語 • Нохчийн • Norsk bokmål • Norsk nynorsk • Occitan • Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча • ਪੰਜਾਬੀ • پنجابی • پښتو • Polski • Português • Română • Русиньскый • Русский • Саха тыла • Sardu • Scots • Shqip • Simple English • سنڌي • Slovenčina • Slovenščina • Soomaaliga • کوردی • Српски / srpski • Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски • Sunda • Suomi • Svenska • Tagalog • தமிழ் • Taqbaylit • Татарча / tatarça • ไทย • Тоҷикӣ • Türkçe • Українська • اردو • ئۇيغۇرچە / Uyghurche • Tiếng Việt • Wayuunaiki • Winaray • Wolof • 吴语 • ייִדיש • Yorùbá • 粵語 • Zazaki • Zeêuws • 中文 • Arab League: 350,000,000 • c. 50 million Regions with significant p...