Arabs in Italy

Arabs in Italy
Gli arabi in Italia

Magdi Allam Stephan El Shaarawy File:Nadia Ejjafini 2007.jpg Nadia Ejjafini
Regions with significant populations
Lombardy, Piedmont, Lazio, Liguria, Tuscany
Languages
Arabic language, Italian language, French language, English language
Religion
Islam and Christianity
Related ethnic groups
Arab people, Arab diaspora, Arab Americans, Arab Argentine, Arab Brazilian, Arab Canadians, Arab Mexican

Arabs in Italy (Italian: Gli arabi in Italiacode: it is deprecated ) are mostly expatriates from a range of Arab countries, particularly Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Lebanon, Syria, Libya, the Palestinian Territories, and Iraq; and also small groups from Jordan, Algeria and Sudan. As a result of the Arab Spring (Libyan Civil War and Syrian Civil War), many have the status of refugees or illegal immigrants, trying to immigrate especially to France, Germany and Sweden.

Notable people

• Julia Domna (170-217), wife of Roman emperor Septimius Severus
• Elagabalus (203-222), descendant of Domna, Roman emperor from 218-222 A.D.
• Philip the Arab (204-249), Roman emperor from 244-249 A.D.
• Zenobia (240-275) - queen from Syria
• Simone Assemani (1752–1820), professor of Oriental languages in Padua
• Magdi Allam (1952), journalist and politician
• Adel Smith (1960), founder of the Union of Italian Muslims
• Stephan El Shaarawy (1992), footballer
• Mostafa Errebbah (1971), long-distance runner
• Nadia Ejjafini (1977), long-distance runner
• Malika Ayane (1984), singer
• Jonis Khoris (1989), footballer
• Yonese Hanine (1990), footballer
• Jaber Alwan (1948), artist and painter
• Michelle Nouri (1973), journalist and author
• Haider Rashid, director, producer and writer
• Iyad Anwar Wali, businessman
• Ilaria Spada (1981), actress
• Shadi Ghosheh (1987), footballer
• Karim Laribi (1991), footballer
• Abdul Hadi Palazzi, secretary general of the Italian Muslim Assembly
• Ali Ghaleb Himmat (1938), businessman

See also

• Arabs in Europe
• Egyptians in Italy
• History of Islam in southern Italy
• Moroccan people in Italy
• Muslim conquest of Sicily
• Saracinesco