They aren’t even a Semitic people and Iran is too far East to be considered middle eastern, like Iran shares a boarder with a south Asian country. Semitic does not equal Middle Eastern. Middle East is a Eurocentric geographic term popularized by the British first to describe a landmass …

Same as us. Assyrians, in the region of Syria, We are not Arabs for sure. You can Call me Syrian, Assyrian, Orthodox, or Middle Eastern if you want. Arabs come from the Saudi …

Her parents, like many older Iranian Americans, saw it differently. She was raised in a home that believed Iranians were white, she said. Most check ‘white’ A Times analysis found that more...

Iran is in both the Middle-East and Asia. The Middle-East isn’t a separate continent from Asia, it’s really just a region that ranges from North Africa to the Caucasus region in Eastern Europe, …

For years, members of Arab and Iranian communities have lobbied the U.S. Census Bureau to create a separate category for people of Middle Eastern or North African descent.

Most Middle Eastern countries (13 out of 18) are part of the Arab world. The most populous countries in the region are Egypt, Turkey, and Iran, while Saudi Arabia is the largest Middle …

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Middle East; Iranian women political prisoners urge end to protester executions Thirty women political prisoners in Iran, including a Franco-Iranian academic and the daughter of a former …

For the EU’s foreign ministers, it’s much easier to adopt a package of additional sanctions on Iran – which is what they did on Monday – that cover 37 government figures known to have used …

Middle Easterners are people of color. Of course, there is some nuance in skin color that allow you to pass as white. Although if you find yourself passing as white sometimes, I'd say it's more …