Classify these Syrian Alawites

[Palopalo]

Alawites, like the Druzes, are an isolated sect of Shia Islam. Likewise, they don’t accept converts so they have been very endogamous. Some people claim they have interesting looks.

http://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/Images/2011/10/11/20111011161351956734_20.jpg

http://levantri.com/en/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/2012218183127918734_20-680x365_c.jpg

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/dailystar/Pictures/2013/11/29/229037_img650x420_img650x420_crop.jpg

https://www.thenational.ae/image/policy:1.372355:1499526407/image/jpeg.jpg?f=16x9&w=1024&$p$f$w=2589da4

https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/alawites-girls-their-red-bandana-alewives-wears-represents-belief-alawite-park-festival-london-42021119.jpg

http://media.polisblog.it/4/4e2/52017138-586x416.jpg

http://media.themalaymailonline.com/uploads/articles/2014-08/lebanon0608.JPG

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02244/Shabiha_2244515b.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9ifHDODxPh8/U44Qzo05XYI/AAAAAAAAJW4/LdMgFebB0yQ/s1600/n00388293-b.jpg

http://turcja.biz/images/religia/islam/odlamy/alawici_001.jpg

https://globalvoices.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/loubna-2-2.jpg

[randomguy1235]

They resemble 2000+ year old Levantine populations

[Hamlet]

Some form of Med.+ Armenid strain, maybe Litorid? Very Levantine, though.

[Сербо Макеридов]

East Meds mostly, with some Armenid and Taurid influence.

[Sikeliot]

They look like Ashkenazim, and somewhat like Sicilians. They do not look very "Arab" at all.

[Profileid]

They look like Ashkenazim, and somewhat like Sicilians. They do not look very "Arab" at all.

they look nothing like ashkenazis, r u out of ur mind

[Hamlet]

They look like Ashkenazim, and somewhat like Sicilians. They do not look very "Arab" at all.

Ashkenazis are a lot less Middle Eastern looking than you think.

[Kamal900]

They look pretty Levantine to me. 3alawis are genetically more Levantine than other Muslim groups of the Levant.

[Hamlet]

Not sure why this sprung to mind, but this to me is a very distinguishable Ashkenazi (I could tell in the first few seconds before they said her name):


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC884TwZcMI

These guys (mostly) look nothing like her.

[Myanthropologies]

They look pretty Levantine to me, and most of those people look closer to Afghans, Turks, and Persians than to any Europeans.

[DarknessWin]

Some form of Med.+ Armenid strain, maybe Litorid? Very Levantine, though.

I see no Med in the photos, just Syrid phenotype

[Hamlet]

I see no Med in the photos, just Syrid phenotype

There is definitely a decent Med. contribution.

[DarknessWin]

There is definitely a decent Med. contribution.

I dont see it, they have very Syrid type noses.
Not even 1 with straight nose

[lameduck]

levantine look

[Hamlet]

I dont see it, they have very Syrid type noses.
Not even 1 with straight nose

Sure, but isn't Syrid just Med+Armenoid - it's not pure Armenoid after all.

[MysteriousWays]

This set really does not look Ashkenazi or Sicilian at all. Look most similar to other Levantines. Taurid and Armenoid phenotypes dominate, with some East Med influence, although I don't find the East Med influence to be that large in this set. I've seen plenty of other Syrians who look strongly East Med though.

[Odin]

East-Meds and Armenoids.

[Tooting Carmen]

In between Caucasus people and Arabians.

[Columella]

The Assads are strongly Dinaric. In the other pics we can pick Mediterranean- Orientalid mostly blends with Dinaric/Armenoid.


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[Newsboy]

They look pretty Levantine/Assyrian to me.