Set in the warmth and light of Southern California and told in tactile and olfactory prose, it was grounded on two subjects she obviously knew well: Arab-American communities and cooking.
Although a Bedouin group might include a small number of outsiders, such as prisoners of war, Meccan society was markedly diverse, including non-Arabs as well as Arabs, slave as well as free.
Well, the Arab units of the Ottoman military didn't defect".
Adal then took on reinforcements as well: 900 Arab, Turkish, and Albanian musketeers, plus some cannon.
The Beirut Art Center has exhibitions from the West, as well as Arab artists, and holds lectures and discussions.
The primordial identities in those provinces — based on Shiite and Sunni religions as well as Arab or Kurdish ethnicity — still define Iraq.
The porousness of the border is essential to Al Qaeda's Yemen-based branch, which has become a major terrorism concern for the United States as well as Arab countries.
But Syria's relations with European as well as Arab countries, including Iraq, are thawing; a delegation from America's Congress recently visited Damascus despite White House objections.
He said they enjoyed strong logistical support from similar groups inside Iraq as well as Arab tribes that straddle the border between the two countries.
The people of Saudi Arabia matter very little as well to Arab or international governments who have yet to send condolences or express sympathy for the victims.
The expansion of Islam into North Africa between the 7th and 11th centuries prompted additional groups of Berbers, as well as Arab groups wishing to retain traditional beliefs, to move into the Sahara.
