Arab Dutch (Arabische Nederlanders), also referred to as Dutch Arabs (Nederlandse Arabieren), are citizens or residents of the Netherlands whose ancestry traces back to the Arab World.
Total population | |
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Moroccans 414,186 (2021) Syrians 113,126 (2021) Iraqis 66,216 (2021) Egyptians 28,399 (2021) Tunisians 10,940 (2021) Algerians 8,849 (2021) Lebanese 7,950 (2021) Saudis 4,860 (2021) Jordanians 2,719 (2021) Kuwaitis 2,669 (2021)[1] | |
Regions with significant populations | |
predominantly Randstad (Amsterdam, Rotterdam and The Hague) | |
Languages | |
Arabic language Dutch language | |
Religion | |
Mainly Islam and minority Christianity | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Arabs, Arab diaspora |
In 2001, two Arab immigrants to the Netherlands, Egyptian-born Farouk Ibrahim (58) and Moroccan-born Mustafa Aboustib, set up the Arab Democratic Party (Arabische Democratische Partij), complaining that Arabs were not well represented in mainstream political parties except as "pretty Arab faces".[2] In 2007, a group of Arab Dutch complained about the television network Al Jazeera's effective monopoly on Arabic broadcasting in the country.[3]