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Arabs in Germany

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Arabs in Germany
العرب في المانيا
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

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The first notable Arab-German was Emily Ruete, born 1844, originally 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

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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

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Film, television, acting
Music
  • Laith Al-Deen, pop musician of Iraqi origin
  • Farid Bang rapper of Moroccan origin
  • Bushido, rapper of Tunisian origin
  • Tony D, rapper of Lebanese origin
  • Samy Deluxe, rapper and hip hop artist of Sudanese origin
  • Loco Dice, DJ and electronic music producer of Tunisian origin
  • Senna Gammour, pop singer and songwriter of Algerian-Moroccan origin
  • Fady Maalouf, singer of Lebanese origin
  • Massiv rapper of Palestinian origin
  • Baba Saad, rapper of Lebanese origin
  • Tarééc, singer of Lebanese-Palestinian origin
  • Adel Tawil, singer of Egyptian-Tunisian origin
  • U-cee, soul singer of Egyptian-Tunisian origin
  • Safy Boutella, musician of Algerian origin
Sports

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Bevölkerung in Privathaushalten 2023 nach Migrationshintergrund". Federal Statistical Office of Germany. Retrieved 7 June 2024.
  2. ^ "Drusentum - Die geheime Religion (2020)". Deutschlandfunk. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
  3. ^ Rick Lyman; Anemona Hartocollis & Alison Smale (4 September 2015). "Migrants Cross Austria Border From Hungary". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 7 September 2015. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ Ghadban, Ralph (2020). Arabische Clans: die unterschätzte Gefahr (1. Auflage ed.). Berlin: Ullstein. ISBN 978-3-430-20255-8.
  6. ^ "The Runaway Princess".
  7. ^ Women Imagine Change p. 411
  8. ^ "Arabische Christen in Deutschland — Christliches Zentrum Herborn". Archived from the original on 2013-12-30. Retrieved 2014-09-27.
  9. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-10-27. Retrieved 2011-10-31.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  10. ^ "Kartenseite: Marokkaner in Deutschland - Landkreise". kartenseite.wordpress.com. 2017-03-26. Retrieved 2017-05-19.
  11. ^ a b c d "Anzahl der Ausländer in Deutschland nach Herkunftsland in den Jahren 2015 und 2016". fb38 stuy (in German).
  12. ^ "Bevölkerung und Erwerbstätigkeit" (PDF). Statistisches Bundesamt (in German). 20 June 2017. Retrieved 30 December 2017.
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