What on Earth Happened to the Arab Christians?

What on Earth happened to the Arab Christians? Christianity has been in the Middle East for 20 centuries now, but just what does it mean to be an "Arab Christian" or "Christian Arab"? Does such a designation even exist? In today's video, we'll be discussing some of the history of Islamization and Arabization in the regions of the Levant, Egypt and the Maghreb and how this has affected the demographics and identities of their indigenous Christian population.
The complex ethno-religious and political situation of the Middle East has been shaped by generations and generations of migrations, conflicts, assimilation and cultural shifts. Arabic-speaking Christians are an often glossed over demographic in the minds of many Americans and Westerners, but they are an important part of the historical and current situation in the region. Thanks for watching!
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www.britannica.com/topic/Maro...
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_eas...
www.nationalgeographic.com/hi...
www.huffpost.com/entry/chart-...
nypost.com/2017/04/14/christi...

[@MyNameIsJ3ffrey]

Maronite Christian here. We still definitely exist. We aren’t going anywhere ❤️ 🇱🇧.

[@deathtoluke]

Imagine being Armenian and fleeing the Ottoman empire only to be called a Turk in South America

[@jordanianchristian8387]

There is actual Arab Christians. Not just Arabized Christians. I am 100% Arab and Christian.

[@BangFarang1]

I had a Christian Iraqi girlfriend 15 years ago. Many people thought she was a convert, to what she used to reply that her family was Christian since Jesus Christ era.

[@gloriousy8832]

I am Iraqi christain

[@eca3101]

Proud Egyptian and Christian 🙌🇪🇬

[@jimjumaa2277]

I'm Arabic Christian my family used to live in Iraq and we were happy there before the American invasion of my country, now we are refugees in Lebanon .

[@Eva-zq3rl]

My grandfather was born in Mosul, Iraq in the 1930s.. he is Chaldean and during his childhood there was a thriving Christian community in Mosul! Some of the oldest Christian monasteries in the world were/are located outside of Mosul. Thank you for the great video :)

[@mikers3580]

Love to my Christian brothers throughout the Middle East from an Assyrian ✌🏽

[@jordanianchristian8387]

There still here, just in smaller numbers than before Islam. Including me.

[@john-georgiosarkis2174]

I’m a Maronite Christian and proud to be one. God bless you for this insight into middle eastern Christians. We are truely a people who should be studied more often

[@jenny8296]

My Palestinian grandparents were Catholics from Iqrith village located between Safad and Acre near the Lebanese border. They were part of the Nakba after multiple Jewish militias attacked the village. They went to Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and ended up in Bethlehem in 1951. Now we all live outside of Palestine except for one uncle and his family.

[@nizam5568]

Arab Christians are still very much alive and strong today, being very strong minorities in the Levant, much to the dismay of the comments section.

[@harfangbleu]

As a Roman Catholic, I've experienced a maronite mass in a Lebanese parish here in Québec and I really liked it. The mass was in French while the chants were in Arab. It was interesting

[@rapunzel9024]

still here ! proud to be arab christian ✝️🇩🇿

[@skull_craker3121]

Love from an orthodox living in lebanon , thought we are a small number but defenietly still exist🇱🇧🇱🇧

[@TheEgyptianOne]

I want to point out that Most of the Christians in the Middle East were not converted by Europeans. Let us not forget that Christianity arose in the Middle East Specially when it comes to the Levant and Egypt. Jesus himself came from Palestine and Egypt was his refuge and many of his followers traveled around the region to spread the Message. In 49 AD, about 19 years after the Ascension of Jesus, saint Mark traveled to Alexandria and founded the Church of Alexandria(way before the Byzantine Empire) Today, the Coptic Orthodox Church, the Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria, and the Coptic Catholic Church trace their origins to this original community. Aspects of the Coptic liturgy can be traced back to Mark himself. You also forgot about the Iraqi Christians AKA Chaldeans, where prophet Abraham was from.

[@fadhad]

It's very important to note that in pre-Islamic era, Arabs were mainly Christians. For example, Ghassanids, Lakhmids, Najd, Beth Qatraye and Beth Mazunaye in Eastern Arabia and many tribes such as Banu Taghlib, Banu Bakir and many more were all Christians. Ghassanid (modern day Jordan and south Syria) was an Arabic Christian kingdom allied with the byzantine empire while the lakhmids (modern day Iraq) was an Arabic Christian kingdom allied with the Sassanid empire.

[@MrMed992]

Greek Orthodox Syrian ☦️🇸🇾☦️

[@zahra.fatima]

proud arab christian 🇩🇿💕