Welcome to the summary page for FabulousFusionFood's Arab World recipes. This page provides links to all the recipes presented on this site that originate in the Arab World, with 450 recipes in total.

These recipes all originate in the Arab World, which includes, for the most part, the Middle East, North Africa and the Horn of Africa.

The Arab world, formally the Arab homeland, also known as the Arab nation, the Arabsphere, or the Arab states, comprises a large group of countries, mainly located in West Asia and North Africa. While the majority of people in the Arab world are ethnically Arab, there are also significant populations of other ethnic groups such as Berbers, Kurds, Somalis and Nubians, among other groups. Arabic is used as the lingua franca throughout the Arab world.

The Arab world is at its minimum defined as the 19 states where Arabs form at least a plurality of the population. At its maximum it consists of the 22 members of the Arab League, an international organization, which on top of the 19 plurality Arab states also includes the Bantu-speaking Comoros, and the Cushitic-speaking Djibouti and Somalia. The region stretches from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Arabian Sea in the east, and from the Mediterranean Sea in the north to the Indian Ocean in the southeast. The eastern part of the Arab world is known as the Mashriq, and the western part as the Maghreb.

In post-classical history, the Arab world was synonymous with the historic Arab empires and caliphates. Arab nationalism arose in the second half of the 19th century along with other nationalist movements within the Ottoman Empire. The Arab League was formed in 1945 to represent the interests of Arab people and especially to pursue the political unification of the Arab countries, a project known as Pan-Arabism.

The linguistic and political denotation inherent in the term Arab is generally dominant over genealogical considerations. In Arab states, Standard Arabic is used by the government. Local vernacular languages are referred to as Darija (الدَّارِجَة 'everyday/colloquial language') in the Maghreb or Aammiyya (ٱلْعَامِيَّة 'common language') in the Mashreq. The majority of the vocabulary in these vernaculars is shared with Standard Arabic, but some of them also significantly borrow from other languages, such as Berber, French, Spanish and Italian in the Maghreb.

In the Arab world, Modern Standard Arabic, derived from Classical Arabic (symptomatic of Arabic diglossia), serves as an official language in the Arab League states, and Arabic dialects are used as lingua franca. Various indigenous languages are also spoken, which predate the spread of the Arabic language. This contrasts with the situation in the wider Islamic world, where, in contiguous Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan, the Perso-Arabic script is used and Arabic is the primary liturgical language, but the tongue is not official at the state level or spoken as a vernacular. Arabs constitute around one quarter of the 1.5 billion Muslims in the Islamic world.

As a recipe collector, my first encounter with the Arab World was actually in Mauretania, or a trip from neighbouring Senegal to Mauretania and Mali.

The Countries Of the Arab World, with their geographic locations

Arms	Flag	Name of Territory	Capital	Name in Official Language(s)
		Bahrain	Manama	مملكة البحرين (Arabic: Mamlakat al-Baḥrayn)
		Egypt	Cairo	جمهورية مصر العربية (Arabic: Jumhūrīyat Miṣr al-ʻArabīyah)
		Iran	Tehran	جمهوری اسلامی ایران (Persian: Jomhuri-ye Eslâmi-ye Irân)
		Iraq	Baghdad	جُمْهُورِيَّة ٱلْعِرَاق (Arabic: Jumhūriyya al-ʿIrāq) کۆماری عێراق (Kurdish: Komarî Êraq)
		Jordan	Amman	المملكة الأردنية الهاشمية (Arabic: al-Mamlakah al-ʾUrdunniyah al-Hāshimiyah)
		Kuwait	Kuwait City	دَوْلَة ٱلْكُوَيْت (Arabic: Dawla al-Kuwayt)
		Lebanon	Beiruit	الجمهورية اللبنانية (Arabic: al-Jumhūrīyah al-Lubnānīyah)
		Oman	Muscat	ދިވެހިރާއްޖޭގެ ޖުމްހޫރިއްޔާسلطنة عُمان (Arabic: Salṭanat ʻUmān)
		Palestine	Ramallah	دولة فلسطين (Arabic: Dawlat Filasṭīn)
		Qatar	Doha	دولة قطر (Arabic: Dawlat Qaṭar)
		Saudi Arabia	Riyadh	ٱلْمَمْلَكَة ٱلْعَرَبِيَّة ٱلسُّعُودِيَّة (Arabic: al-Mamlaka al-ʿArabiyya al-Suʿūdiyya)
		Syria	Damascus	الجمهورية العربية السورية (Arabic: al-Jumhūriyya al-ʿArabiyya as-Sūriya)
		United Arab Emirates	Abu Dhabi	الإمارات العربية المتحدة
		Yemen	Sana'a (Houthi-led government) Aden (Seat of government)	ٱلْجُمْهُورِيَّةُ ٱلْيَمَنِيَّةُ (Arabic: al-Jumhūriyyatu l-Yamaniyyatu)

North Africa

Arms	Flag	Name of Territory	Capital	Name in Official Language(s)
		Algeria	Algiers	الجزائر (al-Jazāʾir)/Algérie
		Egypt	Cairo	مِصر (Miṣr)
		Libya	Tripoli	ليبيا (Lībiyā)
		Morocco	Rabat	المغرب (al-maḡrib)/ⵍⵎⵖⵔⵉⴱ(lmeɣrib)/Maroc
		Sudan	Khartoum	Sudan/السودان (as-Sūdān)
		Tunisia	Tunis	تونس (Tūnis)/Tunest/Tunisie
		Western Sahara	El Aaiún	الصحراء الغربية (aṣ-Ṣaḥrā' al-Gharbiyyah) Taneẓroft Tutrimt/Sáhara Occidental

Horn of Africac

Arms	Flag	Name of Territory	Capital	Name in Official Language(s)
		Comoros	Moroni	Komori/Comores/جزر القمر (Juzur al-Qumur)
		Djibouti	Moro
		Somalia	Mogadishu	𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘𐒕𐒖 (Soomaaliya) /الصومال (aṣ-Ṣūmāl)
		Somaliland	Hargeisa	Soomaaliland/صوماليلاند (Ṣūmālīlānd)

West Africa

Arms	Flag	Name of Territory	Capital	Name in Official Language(s)
		Mauritania	Nouakchott	موريتانيا (Mūrītānyā)