Classify these three Levantines

[JMack]

Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55b138e5e4b03fc47cfd3c44/t/55e64af3e4b0016a24924a9d/1441155831347/Mahmoud-Darwish.jpg

http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/farewell/farewell_darwish.jpg

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/95/91/41/95914199d7381baaf8fb53eb71c9f393.jpg


Annabella Hilal, Lebanese

https://lebanesecelebritynews.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/img_7571.png

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/4b/00/3b/4b003bc562a2b22d7a36569da0263105.jpg


Hafez Al-Assad, Syrian

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/3/13/1331647166747/Hafez-al-Assad-007.jpg?w=620&q=55&auto=format&usm=12&fit=max&

https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/50424091.jpg?quality=90&strip=all

[JMack]

Where can they pass?

[Sikeliot]

1. France and northern Italy
2. Jewish, Sicilian, South Italian, Maltese etc. A lot of Ashkenazi women like her.
3. Western Balkans (Albania, Serbia, and part of Greece)

[JMack]

Others?

[Dema]

IDK, on this photos they look European, what makes them Levantines?

[JMack]

IDK, on this photos they look European, what makes them Levantines?

They're ethnically Lebanese, Syrian and Palestine.

[Dema]

They're ethnically Lebanese, Syrian and Palestine.

Just like Freddie Mercury is Iranian, i would never guess that if someone didn't tell me. These people look European. Female is very attractive! Palestinian guy looks Jewish.
I guess they are atypical. No way that is standard look or something.

[JMack]

Just like Freddie Mercury is Iranian, i would never guess that if someone didn't tell me. These people look European. Female is very attractive while Palestinian guy looks Jewish.
I guess they are atypical. No way that is standard look or something.

That's why i'm asking for classification. Btw my personal experience with Lebanese (and i have seen and met dozens) says me that most of them look White.

[randomguy1235]

Just like Freddie Mercury is Iranian, i would never guess that if someone didn't tell me. These people look European. Female is very attractive! Palestinian guy looks Jewish.
I guess they are atypical. No way that is standard look or something.

The two men are atypical (not especially rare though) but, besides the female's eye color, she's part of the indigenous Levantine spectrum and typical.

[Sacrificed Ram]

1. Eastmed slight Taurid
2. Eastmed/Arabid
3. Kaucasid/mTebid

[bozkur]

They are all atypical. The young woman a bit less atypical.

[JMack]

They are all atypical. The young woman a bit less atypical.

Most Christian Lebanese i've met were not so different of these.

[bozkur]

Most Christian Lebanese i've met were not so different of these.

:picard1:

[JMack]

:picard1:

Deal with your butthurt, Paki.

[JMack]

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[JMack]

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[SardiniaAtlantis]

I know loads of Palestinian old men, and young men for that matter who people would say look stereotypically Jewish.

['owight Gavnah]

That's why i'm asking for classification. Btw my personal experience with Lebanese (and i have seen and met dozens) says me that most of them look White.

I'm not suprised, but it depends what your criteria for "white" really is. If by white you mean Jewish looking/ southern Italian looking here and there then yeah I guess so, but in that case many ethicities in Western Asia could pass as white. In addition to that, many Leb Christians in America are mixed with other countries, for instance I knew a Leb Christian family who spoke fluent Arabic, had Arabic passports but turned out they were half Greek Cypriots. Now it's not THAT different, but still. Anybody looking at them wouldve thought they were Cypriot looking Lebanese.

[JMack]

I'm not suprised, but it depends what your criteria for "white" really is. If by white you mean Jewish looking/ southern Italian looking here and there then yeah I guess so, but in that case many ethicities in Western Asia could pass as white. In addition to that, many Leb Christians in America are mixed with other countries, for instance I knew a Leb Christian family who spoke fluent Arabic, had Arabic passports but turned out they were half Greek Cypriots. Now it's not THAT different, but still. Anybody looking at them wouldve thought they were Cypriot looking Lebanese.

Yeah, you're right. But some can even pass as something above the Alps... Some like Darwish and Brazilian president Michel Temer (100% ethnically levantine) could easily pass as French.

['owight Gavnah]

Yeah, you're right. But some can even pass as something above the Alps... Some like Darwish and Brazilian president Michel Temer (100% ethnically levantine) could easily pass as French.

Yeah I always thought euro looking levantines looked southern French, whereas euro looking afghans looked central/eastern euro.


I mean proper euro looking ones, yes they are uncommon I know.