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View Poll Results: Is North Africa (Morocco to Egypt) part of the Middle East?
Yes. 27 25.71%
No, they are entirely separate. 33 31.43%
No, but North Africa is like a "sister" region to the Middle East. 45 42.86%
Voters: 105. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 05-16-2015, 12:34 PM
 
Location: Kharkiv, Ukraine
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It's not a part of the Middle East, but culturally it's without doubt much more similar to Middle East than to Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Old 05-16-2015, 02:32 PM
 
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It's not a part of the Middle East, but culturally it's without doubt much more similar to Middle East than to Sub-Saharan Africa.
Agreed
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Old 05-16-2015, 11:09 PM
 
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Only Egypt
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Old 05-17-2015, 05:14 AM
 
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I consider it a part of Africa but hit the wrong button...LOL.
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Old 05-17-2015, 07:53 AM
 
Location: Honolulu/DMV Area/NYC
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Yes.
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Old 05-17-2015, 12:13 PM
 
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It's not a part of the Middle East, but culturally it's without doubt much more similar to Middle East than to Sub-Saharan Africa.
That's arguable.

Places like Mali, Senegal, Mauritania, Sudan and Somalia are mostly Sub-Saharan but arguably have more in common with North Africans culturally than with other Sub-Saharan peoples.
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Old 05-18-2015, 02:31 AM
 
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the middle east is a geographic region of the world on the otherwise known as western Asia.

North Africa is culturally muslim, that doesn't make it middle eastern
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Old 05-18-2015, 01:18 PM
 
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Only Egypt
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Old 05-21-2015, 03:03 AM
 
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The term Arab is flawed at best. The term Arab is a pan cultural term that includes anyone of any race.
Well, I'm sorry but you could not be more wrong. Arabs are a SEMITIC ethnic group. Please do not take Wikipedia articles for academical material, they are not.

Nowhere in history was a thing such as "black Arabs" there is however black sub-saharians who adopted arabic as their language. And these can be found anywhere in the world.

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Old 05-21-2015, 03:47 AM
 
Location: Sweden
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Well, I'm sorry but you could not be more wrong. Arabs are a SEMITIC ethnic group. Please do not take Wikipedia articles for academical material, they are not.

Nowhere in history was a thing such as "black Arabs" there is however black sub-saharians who adopted arabic as their language. And these can be found anywhere in the world.

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If you go by Semitic, then that would include Jews and people from the Horn of Africa...

I though the term 'Arab' was just for the Arabic speaking people...
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