Arabs Palestinian and Related

Arabs Palestinian and Related

Levantine ǀ Middle Eastern

Arabs Bedouin Woman

Photo:  Bedouin woman, 1898. Library of Congress accessed on Wikimedia Commons.

Arabs include Bedouins, the nomadic people of the desert.  Arabs represent a group of peoples with tribal and linguistic connections across North Africa and the Middle East. The term Arab pre-dates Islam by hundreds of years and refers to the ethnic group.

Arabs (Palestinian & Related) represents 100 unrelated Northern Arabs (Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Palestinian) living in Dubai who were sampled in 2004 by the Dubai police, US FBI, and Strathclyde University, UK.

Source publication: STR population diversity in nine ethnic populations living in Dubai, FSI 152 (2005) 267-279.

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