What is an important Arab contribution to North African culture?
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They butchered half the Sudan, you tell me.
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"The first African civilization after Egypt was built by an Egyptianized people who lived between the Nile River's first and third cataracts and spoke Nilo-Saharan languages. This region around the first cataract, called Nubia, had been conquered and colonized by Egypt in the fourth millenium BC. Because of this, Egyptian civilization diffused southward and a new African kingdom was built up in the floodplain around the Nile's third cataract: the Kush. Their capital city was Kerma and it served as the major trading center for goods travelling north from the southern regions of Africa. \n\n"Kush attained its greatest power and cultural energy between 1700 and 1500 BC during the Third Intermediate period in Egypt. The domination of Egypt by the Hyksos allowed Kush to come out from under the hegemony of Egypt and flower as a culture; this period ended, however, when the New Kingdom kings, having thrown the Hyksos out of Egypt, reconquered Kush and brought it under Egyptian colonial rule."\n\nMuch more at the article linked below.
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I am an Arab and I do not know a meaning to this word, so it must be a name.
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Halla..I am European and I was trying to learn some Arabic alone..WOULD YOU HELP ME WITH A PIECE OF TRANSLATION ,WRITTEN FROM EGYPTIAN MAN..PLEASE..
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yeah, i'm an arab but live in another country
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It was largely pagan.Before the coming of Islam, most Arabs followed a religion featuring the worship of a number of deities, including Hubal, Wadd, Al-Lat, Manat, and Uzza, while some tribes had converted to Christianity or Judaism, and a few individuals, the hanifs, had apparently rejected polytheism in favor of a vague monotheism.\n\nBy the fourth century AD, the Arab kingdoms of the Lakhmids in southern Iraq and Ghassanids in southern Syria had emerged just south of the Fertile Crescent and ended up allying respectively with the Sassanid and Byzantine Empires. Thus they were constantly at war with each other on behalf of their imperial patrons. However, their courts were responsible for some notable examples of pre-Islamic Arabic poetry, and for some of the few surviving pre-Islamic Arabic inscriptions in the Arabic alphabet. The Lakhmid kingdom was dissolved by the Sassanids in 602, while the Ghassanids would hold out until engulfed by the expansion of Islam. Mecca was conquered by the Quraysh around 500CE and was already a religious centre.\n\nThere was a split between the Arabs who lived in towns near oasis growing dates and supplying trade caravans and the Bedouin who lived as nomadic pastoralists. This split still exists in Arab culture today.
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There are primarily three "variations" of Arabic: classical Arabic (the Arabic you find written in the Quran), modern standard Arabic (the Arabic spoken by many news agencies and printed in newspapers in the Middle East), and Arabic dialects. The dialects vary from region to region, from nation to nation, but in general the dialects of North Africa are considerably different from those of the Middle East and are mutually unintelligible.\n\nSome distinguishing characteristics of various dialects include the following:\n\nThe Lebanese dialect is considered "lighter"; it often omits the letter "q" that you hear, for example, in the beginning of the word "qahweh" ("coffee"), pronouncing it "'ahweh" instead.\n\nThe Egyptian dialect pronounces the letter "j" as a hard "g". Therefore, the word "jameel" ("handsome") is pronounced "gameel" in Egypt.\n\nPalestinian and Saudi Arabian dialects are considered to be somewhat "heavier" or "harsher" in sound.\n\n\nFor more information, check out the following links.
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An Arab is someone living or descended from an Arabian background .these peoples were originally from the saudi arabian peninsula but may now be found in many North African countries mostly those bordering the sahara desert.the original arabian way of life was nomadic but this is rarely the case now.The term Arab seems to have become a catch all phrase used to describe anyone of a middle eastern appearance or nationality and also any muslim.when in fact most middle eastern countries are the creation of whichever colonial power gave them their freedom back(mostly the U.K. and France).Arabs have been in existance far longer than any of the countries they now inhabit and also far longer than the religions most now follow.
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cet un bon match mais la tunisie est très meilleur par a por à l'équipe d'arabe saoudites .la tunisie ....la tunisie
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http://www.pathsofdevotion.com/african.html\n\nThis is my website, far from complete, but I actually do have a little article about West African Traditions.  Most of all though, see the link where I linked to another person's website.  They have a lot of good stuff on there!
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Here you go! Enjoy!\n\nwww.gayarab.org/home.htm\nwww.kelma.org/arab_gay/arab_gay.php\nwww.al-bab.com/arab/background/gay.htm
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U can refer to this  page :) \n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahara
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from the middle east country who is blessed with it
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I suggest you read Black Athena by Martin Bernal ..this gives a great description of how Africans influenced the Greeks. Another great author is Howard Zinn. Hey and would you guess that these men are white speaking of the greatness of Africans!!!
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I hear Jordan is nice. For me Jordan is possibly the only arab country that I would be willing to visit... Beside Turkey.
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Niger, Somalia, Senegal - a lot of the poor African contries. \n\nAll Islamic countries do teach the Qu'ran during the course of study, but do not teach it in such a harsh way.
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olive skinned or the color of the modern arab. This is based on ancient manuscripts and tomb paintings in egypt showing what the jews looked like.