Arabs in Romania
Total population | |
---|---|
5,000 | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Bucharest | |
Languages | |
Arabic language Romanian language | |
Religion | |
Islam and Christianity | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Arab people, Arab diaspora, Arab American, Arab Argentine, Arab Brazilian, Arab Canadians, Arab Mexican |
Arabs in Romania (Romanian: Arabii din România) are the people from Arab countries, particularly Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Iraq, Jordan and also small groups from Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Libya and Sudan, who emigrated from their native nations and currently reside in Romania. Most Arab Romanians are of Lebanese or Syrian origin. In the forty-year history of this community, 5,000 Arabs have migrated to Romania.[1][2] It is estimated that almost half a million Middle Eastern Arabs studied in Romania during the 1980s.[3]
In addition, Romania has people from Arab countries, who have the status of refugees (Refugees of the Syrian civil war) or illegal immigrants, primarily from North Africa, trying to immigrate to Western Europe.
Notable people
- Raed Arafat, doctor, founder of SMURD and former Romanian Minister of Health
- Omar Arnaout, singer (Lebanese father)
- Dana Abed Kader, handballer (Syrian father)
- Yasin Hamed, footballer (Sudanese father)
- Laura Nureldin, journalist (Sudanese father)
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