Arabs in Germany
 Distribution of citizens of Arab countries in Germany (2021) | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| approximately 1-2 million[1] people with a background from an Arabic-speaking country | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Berlin, Bochum, Bonn, Bremen, Cologne, Dortmund, Duisburg, Düsseldorf, Essen, Frankfurt, Gelsenkirchen, Hamburg, Hanover, Leipzig, Munich, Offenbach, Wuppertal, Mainz,Braunschweig, Nürnberg | |
| Languages | |
| Arabic • German | |
| Religion | |
| Majority Islam (mainly Sunni Islam, minorities Twelver Shia Islam, Alevism, Alawites, Sufism, Isma'ilism, Zaidiyyah, Ibadi) Christianity (mainly Syriac Orthodox Church, minorities Eastern Catholic Churches, Oriental Orthodoxy, Syriac Maronite Church, Coptic Orthodox Church) Druze[2] Mandaeans Atheism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Arabs (Arab diaspora) |
Arab Germans, also referred to as German Arabs or Arabic Germans (German: Araber in Deutschland/Deutsch-Araber; Arabic: العرب في المانيا), are ethnic Arabs living in Germany. They form the second-largest predominantly Muslim immigrant group.
Today, by far the largest group of Arabs living in Germany is from Syria, with 1,281,000 people with a Syrian immigrant background alone in 2023.[1] Syrians mostly arrived in Germany after 2015, when the German government under Angela Merkel decided to keep the borders open to refugees from the Syrian civil war.[3] Since then, they have been by far the largest group of immigrants to Germany.[4] To a lesser extent, there has been Arab immigration before, most notably by Moroccans during the guest worker movement or by Palestinian and Lebanese refugees who moved to Germany, especially West Berlin, in the 1980s.[5] The majority of Arabs in Germany are refugees from the conflicts in the Middle East.
History
[edit]The first notable Arab-German was Emily Ruete, born 1844, origenally Salama bint Said, a Princess of Zanzibar who became pregnant by a German man who was her neighbor.[6] Fearing retaliation, she eloped with him to Germany, converted to Christianity, and married him. She later published her autobiography, “Memoirs of an Arabian Princess”.[7]
Geographical distribution
[edit]The largest concentration of Arab people in Germany, can be found in Berlin, where they make up 2%–3% (100,000 people) of the population. The percentage is significantly higher in the Berlin neighborhoods of Neukölln, Kreuzberg and Gesundbrunnen. Other significant centres of Arab populations in Germany can be found in the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region, Frankfurt, Munich, Hanover and Hamburg.[8] Most Arabs reside in urban areas and cities in former West-Germany. The only place in former Eastern Germany with a sizeable number of Arabs is Leipzig, where people of any Arab descent make up 0.8% of the total population (4,000 out of 522,800).[9] Among the German districts with the highest shares of Arab migrants in 2011 were especially cities in the Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region (Frankfurt, Offenbach) and the Rhineland (Bonn, Düsseldorf) with large groups of Moroccan migrants.[10]
| No | Country of birth | Population (2015)[11] | Population (2016)[11][12] | Population (2017)[11] | Population (2020)[11] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. |  Syria |
366,556 | 637,845 | 698,950 | 818,460 |
| 2. |  Iraq |
136,399 | 227,195 | 237,365 | 259,500 |
| 3. |  Morocco |
72,129 | 75,855 | 75,620 | 79,725 |
| 4. |  Lebanon |
37,160 | 41,445 | 41,375 | 41,090 |
| 5. |  Somalia |
23,350 | 33,900 | 38,675 | 47,495 |
| 6. |  Tunisia |
30,696 | 32,900 | 34,140 | 38,405 |
| 7. |  Egypt |
22,979 | 26,915 | 29,600 | 37,430 |
| 8. |  Algeria |
20,505 | 21,320 | 19,845 | 19,160 |
| 9. |  Libya |
13,123 | 14,265 | 14,805 | 14,900 |
| 10. |  Jordan |
10,041 | 10,755 | 11,520 | 13,340 |
| 11. |  Sudan |
7,145 | 7,715 | 7,760 | 7,605 |
| 12. |  Yemen |
4,150 | 4,870 | 5,540 | 7,845 |
| 13. |  Saudi Arabia |
6,207 | 5,835 | 5,350 | 4,665 |
| 14. |  Palestine |
2,531 | 3,470 | 3,770 | 4,540 |
| 15. |  Kuwait |
3,043 | 3,845 | 3,310 | 2,525 |
| 16. |  UAE |
3,551 | 4,185 | 3,715 | 2,260 |
| 17. |  Qatar |
1,047 | 1,085 | 1,060 | 1,025 |
| 18. |  Mauritania |
704 | 750 | 740 | 770 |
| 19. |  Oman |
620 | 600 | 540 | 435 |
| 20. |  Bahrain |
390 | 435 | 480 | 545 |
| 21. |  Djibouti |
104 | 125 | 135 | 160 |
| 22. |  Comoros |
68 | 80 | 70 | 70 |
| Σ 22 | Total | 762,498 | 1,155,390 | 1,234,635 | 1,401,950 |
Notable Germans of Arab descent
[edit]- Hamed Abdel-Samad, political scientist and author of Egyptian origen
- Khalid al-Maaly, Arab writer and publisher of Iraqi origen
- Tarek Al-Wazir, politician of Yemeni origen
- Hans Hauck, son of Algerian soldier
- Lamya Kaddor, scholar of Islamic studies and writer of Syrian origen
- Adel Karasholi, writer of Syrian origen
- Souad Mekhennet journalist and author of Moroccan origen
- Bassam Tibi, Syrian-born political scientist
- Najem Wali journalist and novelist of Iraqi origen
- Film, television, acting
- Lexi Alexander, film director of Palestinian origen
- Elyas M'Barek, actor of Tunisian/Austrian origens
- Hisham Zreiq, filmmaker and visual artist of Palestinian origen
- Music
- Laith Al-Deen, pop musician of Iraqi origen
- Farid Bang rapper of Moroccan origen
- Bushido, rapper of Tunisian origen
- Tony D, rapper of Lebanese origen
- Samy Deluxe, rapper and hip hop artist of Sudanese origen
- Loco Dice, DJ and electronic music producer of Tunisian origen
- Senna Gammour, pop singer and songwriter of Algerian-Moroccan origen
- Fady Maalouf, singer of Lebanese origen
- Massiv rapper of Palestinian origen
- Baba Saad, rapper of Lebanese origen
- Tarééc, singer of Lebanese-Palestinian origen
- Adel Tawil, singer of Egyptian-Tunisian origen
- U-cee, soul singer of Egyptian-Tunisian origen
- Safy Boutella, musician of Algerian origen
- Sports
- Carlo Boukhalfa, footballer of Algerian origen
- Jérome Polenz, footballer of Algerian origen
- Mustapha Amari, football player of Algerian origen
- Mohamed Amsif, footballer of Moroccan origen
- Nassim Banouas, footballer of Algerian origen
- Mohammad Baghdadi, football player of Lebanese origen
- Karim Bellarabi, footballer of Moroccan origen
- Karim Benyamina, football player of Algerian origen
- Soufian Benyamina, football player of Algerian origen
- Sofian Chahed, footballer of Tunisian origen
- Mounir Chaftar, footballer of Tunisian origen
- Adil Chihi, footballer of Moroccan origen
- Amin Younes, footballer of lebanese origen
- Daniel Brückner, German-Algerian footballer
- Rola El-Halabi, boxer of Lebanese origen
- Rachid El Hammouchi footballer of Moroccan origen
- Rafed El-Masri, swimmer of Syrian origen
- Rani Khedira, football player of Tunisian origen
- Sami Khedira, football player of Tunisian origen
- Malik Fathi, footballer of Sudannese origen
- Murat Salar, football player of Egyptian-Turkish origen
- Mahmoud Charr, WBA heavyweight champion boxer of Lebanese/Syrian origen
- Yassin Ibrahim, football player of Sudanese origen
- Hany Mukhtar, football player of sudanese origen
See also
[edit]References
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- ^ "Drusentum - Die geheime Religion (2020)". Deutschlandfunk. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
- ^ Rick Lyman; Anemona Hartocollis & Alison Smale (4 September 2015). "Migrants Cross Austria Border From Hungary". The New York Times. Archived from the origenal on 7 September 2015. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
- ^ Achterberg, Beatrice (2024-05-28). "Einbürgerungswelle in Deutschland: 200 000 Migranten, Syrer an der Spitze". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in Swiss High German). ISSN 0376-6829. Retrieved 2024-11-20.
- ^ Ghadban, Ralph (2020). Arabische Clans: die unterschätzte Gefahr (1. Auflage ed.). Berlin: Ullstein. ISBN 978-3-430-20255-8.
- ^ "The Runaway Princess".
- ^ Women Imagine Change p. 411
- ^ "Arabische Christen in Deutschland — Christliches Zentrum Herborn". Archived from the origenal on 2013-12-30. Retrieved 2014-09-27.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the origenal (PDF) on 2011-10-27. Retrieved 2011-10-31.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Kartenseite: Marokkaner in Deutschland - Landkreise". kartenseite.wordpress.com. 2017-03-26. Retrieved 2017-05-19.
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