Information AboutArabization |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT ARABIZATION | |
| arab | |
| cultural assimilation | |
| SHOPPER'S DELIGHT | |
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Countries and territories that are traditionally thought to have gone through Arabization include Morocco , Algeria , Tunisia , Libya , Egypt , Lebanon , Syria , Jordan , Palestine , Iraq , and Sudan . The peninsular Arabic language became common among these areas; Dialect s also formed. Today, an Arab from the Levant finds the Arabic of a North Africa n almost incomprehensible. Modern Standard Arabic functions as something of a Dachsprache , allowing speakers of disparate dialects to communicate. IN MODERN TIMES In part of the Al-Anfal Campaign , Saddam Hussein 's Iraqi Ba'athist regime drove hundreds of thousands of Kurdish families out of their homes in Kirkuk after a Kurdish revolt, and gave their homes to Arab-speaking oil field workers as well as to other non-Kurdish people whom Saddam moved from southern Iraq to the city. This violent campaign of Arabization was an attempt to transform the historically multi-ethnic city of Kirkuk, with a strong Kurdish majority according to the Ba'athist regime's own official census, into an Arab city. Kurdish families were left with no homes after being evicted forcefully by Saddam's Iraqi soldiers, and therefore had to migrate to refugee camps. After the fall of Saddam's regime, many Kurdish families came back to Kirkuk to live peacefully with Arab families. SEE ALSO |