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[29] [30] [31] The majority of Yazidis remaining in the Middle East today live in Iraq, primarily in the governorates of Nineveh and Duhok. [32] [33] There is a disagreement among scholars and in Yazidi circles on whether the Yazidi people are a distinct ethnoreligious group or a religious sub-group of the Kurds, an Iranic ethnic group.
Yazidi shrine of Mame Reshan, partially destroyed by ISIL, in the Sinjar Mountains. Yazidis believe in one God, to whom they refer as Xwedê, Xwedawend, Êzdan, and Pedsha ('King'), and, less commonly, Ellah and Heq. [2] [8] [9] [5] [15] According to some Yazidi hymns (known as Qewls), God has 1,001 names, or 3,003 names according to other Qewls.
Most Armenians in Lebanon can speak Western Armenian, and some can speak Turkish. Additionally, different sign languages are used by different people and educational establishments. Lebanon exists in a state of diglossia : MSA is used in formal writing and the news, while Lebanese Arabic—the variety of Levantine Arabic—is used as the native ...
Five years after their lives were torn apart by Islamic State militants, the Yazidis of Iraq are still unable to return home or locate hundreds of their women and children kidnapped and enslaved ...
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Fahad Qassim was just 11 years old when Islamic State militants overran his Yazidi community in the Sinjar region of northern Iraq in August 2014, taking him captive. The attack was the start of ...
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 ...
Watch a live view of the Israel-Lebanon border as US makes contingency plans for a possible evacuation to get Americans out of the region. As Israel prepares for a possible ground invasion of Gaze ...