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  2. Yazidis - Wikipedia

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    And therefore, it is quite legitimate to speak of the unity of both the Yazidi religious identity and Yazidi ethnicity. [148] [140] Yazidis distinguish the name of their community from the name of their religion according the phrase: [149] [150] Miletê min Êzîd ("My nation—the Yazidis.") Dîne min Şerfedîn ("My religion—Sharfadin.") [149]

  3. Lebanese Arabic - Wikipedia

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    Lebanese Arabic (Arabic: عَرَبِيّ لُبْنَانِيّ ʿarabiyy lubnāniyy; autonym: ʿarabe lebnēne [ˈʕaɾabe ləbˈneːne]), or simply Lebanese (Arabic: لُبْنَانِيّ lubnāniyy; autonym: lebnēne [ləbˈneːne]), is a variety of Levantine Arabic, indigenous to and primarily spoken in Lebanon, with significant linguistic influences borrowed from other Middle Eastern ...

  4. Languages of Lebanon - Wikipedia

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    Lebanon's native language, Levantine Arabic, [1] is the main language used in conversations. MSA, despite being Lebanon's second language by number of users, [1] is almost never used in conversations, [5] while English [33] and French [34] are, even between some native speakers of Levantine. Western Armenian and Kurdish are used by their ...

  5. Ten years on, many Yazidis uprooted by Islamic State ... - AOL

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    Yazidis fled to the heights to escape IS, as they have done in past bouts of persecution. In Sinjar town, the district center, soldiers lounge in front of small shops on the main street.

  6. Adawiyya - Wikipedia

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    The terms became synonymous. Adi ibn Musafir praised Yazid, and also denied that Yazid had killed Hussein. Ibn Taymiyya had accused Sheikh Hasan of turning the respect for Yazid into an extreme reverence. [15] [16] [17] Ibn Taymiyya did not takfir the Adawiyya. [18] The term "Yazidi", was given to Adawis by Shias and some Sunnis.

  7. Six years on: Yazidi survivors see 'only empty promises' in ...

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    The estimated 400,000-strong Yazidi community in Iraq is a Kurdish minority whose faith combines elements of Christianity, Zoroastrianism and Islam. Six years on: Yazidi survivors see 'only empty ...

  8. Yazidi woman freed from Gaza after decade in captivity - AOL

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    The woman is a member of the ancient Yazidi religious minority mostly found in Iraq and Syria which saw more than 5,000 members killed and thousands more kidnapped in an IS campaign in 2014 that ...

  9. Al Jadeed - Wikipedia

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    'the new', English: New TV) is an independent Lebanese TV station. Based in Beirut it was launched in 1992 and closed in 1997 due to Syrian intervention, and then relaunched in 2001. On 9 May 2005, Al Jadeed was also launched in America and the Pacific , reaching Arabic-speaking immigrants in the United States, Canada, South America and ...