Arabs

"Arabs? Why are we blaming on Arabs for so long? We can't blame them for that. That's racist. Also, they don't terrorize everything, because my mother told me that Arabs are NOT terrorists at all, and we tried to not to listen to Reagan, Bush, and Trump."

--Su Ji-Hoon, 9/11

Arabs (/ˈær.əbz/; Arabic: عَرَب‎ Arab, Arabic pronunciation [ˈʕarab]) are a population inhabiting the Arab world. They primarily live in the Arab states in Western Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa and western Indian Ocean islands. They also form a significant diaspora, with Arab communities established around the world.

The Arabs are first mentioned in the mid-ninth century BCE as tribal people in eastern and southern Syria, and the north of the Arabian Peninsula. The Arabs appear to have been under the vassalage of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (911–612 BCE), and the succeeding Neo-Babylonian (626–539 BCE), Achaemenid (539–332 BCE), Seleucid and Parthian empires. Arab tribes, most notably the Ghassanids and Lakhmids, begin to appear in the southern Syrian Desert from the mid 3rd century CE onward, during the mid to later stages of the Roman and Sasanian empires. Tradition holds that Arabs descend from Ishmael, the son of Abraham. The Arabian Desert is the birthplace of "Arab," as well other Arab groups that spread in the land and existed for millennia.