Which Arabic speaking peoples do you actually consider to be Arabs?

[Abdelnour]

BTW, it also depends on how you define Arab.

If descendant of Ishmael, then we got this:



However, if we define arabs as Qahtanite arabs, then this:


Which is basically South West Arabia.

[Jacques de Imbelloni]

Saudi Arabia
4 100.00%

Yemen
4 100.00%

Oman
4 100.00%

UAE
4 100.00%

Quwait
4 100.00%

Bahrain
4 100.00%

[Phenix]

ALL OF THEM Muahahaha.
Refuting the arab identity of Maghreb is equally idiot as refuting the germanic side of England or France's latin.
Parts of Levant, Mesopotamia, and Egypt were inhabitated by Arabs way before islamic conquest.
Mauritanians and Sudanese are basically the arab version of Mulattos.
Malta is only arab linguistically, they are Levantines with heavy European influence and a strong rejection of islam.

PS: you forgot Qatar in the poll.

[MsSPF]

It depends of which definition of the word "Arab" we use

Speaking an Arabic dialect = being Arab and most Arabic speakers identify as "Arabs" although they are all aware of the cultural differences that may exist inside the Arab world!

Genetically and culturally, of course, the real Arabs are the from Gulf & the Beduins from Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Palestine & Iraq! They own the real Arab culture/lifestyle in all its variants.
In any way, the whole "Arab world" (and even to a lesser extent few non Arabic-speaking Muslim country) has been somehow influenced by them genetically and/or culturally through the expansion of Islam, especially in the rest of the Middle East & Egypt, where the historical/cultural connections already existed before Islam due to their geographical proximity

I am not sure why Malta is in the list though, their historical/cultural links with the Arab world have been short in time and the actual ones are very low if not non existent and they don't speak Arabic but a Semetic language heavily mixed with Italian/Sicilian, it's an hybrid language, their prononciation is really different, I need to be very concentrated to understand few sentences/words and luckily I speak French, helping to understand a little bit the Italian/Sicilian parts

Mauritania and Sudan are halfway between the Arab world & Subsaharan Africa but they surely are more "Arabs" than the Maltese are

[cyberlorian]

The one who has the most West Eurasian admixture. Therefore, most probably Syrians.

By the way, Maltese people are not Arabs.

[StonyArabia]

Its not mutually intelligible with Modern Standard Arabic (Fus'ha), but it is an offshoot of Arabic, so technically a variety of Arabic.

Most Arabs know Standard Arabic, but their native Arabic dialects are often mutually unintelligible with it. The Tunisian dialect of Arabic is closer to Maltese than it is to most other varieties of Arabic.

Mesopotamian Arabic, Levantine Arabic, and Arabian peninsula Arabic are mutually intelligible, even Egyptian to extent. However North African dialects are not, as they are to diverged and have lots of Berber and Romance influence. I speak the Badawi and Iraqi dialect they are very close to each other with only slight differences.

[StonyArabia]

They are all Arabs, but genetically it would be Jordanians, Western Iraqis, Southern Iraqis, and Bedouin pockets in Northern Iraq, and most people of the Arabian peninsula, including the Baharna of Eastern Saudi and Bahrain. They all have some differences among them, but they all share a common ancestor, and very similar cultures.

Syrians, Palestinians, Lebanese are mostly Arabized including Egyptian. Never mind North Africa which is Arabized Berber

[Brutus]

Many Arabs, who mainly migrated from ancient Yemen to the upper regions, and have founded kingdoms. Lakhmids, Ghassanids, Nabataeans, Banu Amila etc... Most of them were based in mainland Jordan and Iraq, with a small piece of Syria. So I would say genetically, Arabian Peninsular countries, Jordan and Iraq are genetically the closest.

[Bosniensis]

Egypt 5 votes?

I wonder if TA members have the most basic school education?

[Nazarene]

My family are Assyrian Christians who were Arabized, same with those in Mardin and Aleppo. We are not genetically Arab and our identification with arabs is really only a linguistic one.