Talk:Arab culture

message: This is a well written article, but it currently relies on a lot of unreferenced statements.  I'm not saying the article is inaccurate; just that it isn't saying what sources of information it's relying on to state its facts.  (The Literature section is the main exception, since it cites various books for reference).  For example, the Mythology section has no footnotes or citations at all stating where it gets its information about the Kaaba being covered in symbols, what the symbols represented, and which scholars are "inferring" the context in which Arabian mythology flourished.
More citations would be a good idea to back up the information in the article as verifiable. Dugwiki 21:26, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Great article, but needs more citations 

message: Shouldn't food, dance and fashions be added to this page?  After all those are rather definitive elements of what's considered 'culture.'  -Mokha
This page should be expanded to give way more detail then there already is.Jehuty Strife 17:21, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cultural Expansion 

message: There needs to be an examination of the virulent anti-black racism in Arab culture here.  deeceevoice 13:59, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: We should also discuss racisme against whites, jews and asians in this article. 85.146.24.65 (talk) 16:36, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't forget racism against Persians, Kurds and other Middle Easterners as well. The Scythian 06:51, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

text: what about Persians, and Copts, and Kurds, that are Racist against Arabs?? like the Arabs in Ahwaz, or copts, who describe Arabs as Camel riders, sand eaters, and scum!! or Persians who describe Arabs as Barbarians?? Arab League User (talk) 04:53, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Racism

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thread_title:  WikiProject class rating

message: How about a link to Islamic Science?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Renatops (talk • contribs) 18:41, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  How about a link to Islamic Science? 

message: The section "Influence on European science" is a long list of books without anything mentioned about their content.
BTW, have you ever heard about algebra ? About architecture ? About astronomy ?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Srelu (talk • contribs) 21:07, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  That's just data, not information 

message: Arab traditions and Lifestyle needs to be included in this article, like the culture of going to the Cafe, or their daily lifestyle, and traditions, etc...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.238.191.208 (talk) 18:09, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: How about Lifestyle

message: These need more work before going into the article. -- 204.167.92.26 (talk) 19:42, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Subsections moved from Regional Differences section

message: This article is too long. We should break it up into several separate articles, each linked to from an introductory paragraph here. Heroeswithmetaphors (talk) 03:28, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Long article 

message: Some Egyptians continue to believe that Egypt and Egyptians are simply not Arab, emphasizing indigenous Egyptian heritage, culture and independent polity, while pointing to the failures of pan-Arab nationalist policies, and publicly voicing objection to the present official name of the country as Arab Republic of Egypt and reject forced 'Arabization', yet the majority of the public label themselves as Arab.
No citation is given for the claim that the majority of modern-day Egyptians identify themselves as "Arab". In any case, I suspect that this claim is a bogus one (given that it contradicts other sections of the same article) and have requested citation. 124.149.71.232 (talk) 11:28, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Questionable sentence 

message: is a sham. Seems like a parody of what would've been written of a FrontPage magazine editorial on the subject. 177.17.101.201 (talk) 08:47, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: You deleted sources and content.Please don't do that again.Also you addition about the contents of the book you need WP:RS that say this in this case the book is primary source.--Shrike (talk) 10:30, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  Please write in English. I can't understand a word that you wrote. The only content I removed was the one-sided, partisan explanation of the Jewish exodus from Arab countries: a politically charged subject about which sources, political or academic, are very far from reaching consensus. If you, or other editors, insist on retaining it, then for the sake of balance I will have to insert the opinions of the many writers, historians, Israeli politicians, Zionist officials who have emphasized other motivations behind Mizrahi Jewish immigration to Israel - economic or religious motivations, Zionist political activism, etc. - thus making a unified, reductionist, Zionist, Arab-bashing narrative of the 800,000 Jewish "refugees" extremely controversial, to say the least. Rachel Shabi, Avi Shlaim, Tom Segev, Yehoshua Porath, Ran Cohen are some of the Jewish names that have spoken on this subject from a different perspective than the one you prefer. Plus, it's ludicrous that you complain about content removal when you also deleted a paragraph of mine which was undoubtedly a reliable secondary source. 177.17.101.201 (talk) 11:08, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Its you POV its one sided and no one cares for you POV we report what WP:RS says.If there are other WP:RS that say different things you can bring them please don't delete content from wikipedia.--Shrike (talk) 11:25, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Arabism section 

message: This article as usually in Wikipedia is Arabophopic but that's expected from an "encyclopaedia" that creates an article named "mein kmpf in Arabic" but no article named "mein kampf in Turkic or Persian or English"
In this article Arabs are 11 times equated with being racist
Really attested racist, genocidial, apartheidist countries like France, USA, Turkey, Iran, USA, Germany, Myanmar, China etc...in their wikipedia articles fot their culture there is not any mention to racism, genocide etc....
As for Darfur, it's not related to Arab culture besides Sudanese are not Arabs but are Black Africans merely speaking in Arabic same as Jamaicans are not English but merely Black Africans speaking English
Best Regards  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.227.166.243 (talk) 02:43, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Arabophobia 

message: I was hoping to find something about the recurrent motifs in Arab art, but (to my surprise) there's nothing.  Art history in Arab culture is rather significant and influential even in the west.  Is there an article elsewhere that covers it? -- kosboot (talk) 13:19, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Art 

message: This is a notification that I plan to make edits and additions to the "Media Values" section of this page. 
I will be adding a working definition of media values and cited information on objectivity in Arab media, new media in the Arab world, the role of Islam in reportage, and other challenges confronting Arab reporters. I also plan to add references to the existing content.
I would like to make the following deletions:
1.) "Arab news values strictly revolve around political news putting the human interest stories to the side" and "Investigative journalism is frowned upon in the Arab World."
These statement are overly general and are contradicted by evidence from the region. See, for example, Arab non-governmental organizations and media training groups like Arab Journalists for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ).
2.) "Generally, Arab governments seek to conceal political discourse and activity." 
Although many Arab governments have sought to conceal political discourse and activity, this statement does not meet Wikipedia's standard of verifiability. It currently does not have any supporting citations or references and, given its extreme generality, should in fact be supported by exceptional evidence. Additionally, I do not think that a reader's understanding of media values will benefit significantly from such a broad statement about the region's political scene.
I look forward to your feedback on my edits and talking here. Thank you in advance.
Cas244 (talk) 06:55, 11 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edits to media values section 

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