Arab History

The terms Arab, Arabic, Arabia, and Arabian are often misused in modern conversation. The term Arab should describe a person who speaks any dialect of Arabic as the native language. The term Arabian is archaic and should not be applied to people.

Arabic-speaking peoples are native to areas such as the Middle East, Mesopotamia, the Levant, North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.

The majority of Arabs became Muslim following the Islamic Conquest, however, the term Muslim is not mutually-exclusive, as not all Muslims are of Arab descent, as Muslim people such as Iranians, are not Arabs.

Modern Arab history has seen the recent Arab Spring and political and social democratic change throughout the Middle East and North Africa.