Present by Ayesha Alseri

Have you ever heard that someof Mexican culture are from

Arab cultures!!??How is that happened?!! and

not many Arabs live now in Mexico!

Let us see!

Wooow amazin

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OUTLINE:

Language Arabian appearance Arab Mexican Culture:

Palm fronds basketsPotteryScarf & dress

What interesting

things you will tell us about

Mexico?

Arabic Spanish Picture barraa el barrio

berka al berca

tariff la tarifa

 al-yaasmiin el jazmín

 az-zaytuun la aceituna

Spanish Arabic Words!!!

http://www2.ignatius.edu/faculty/turner/arabicspanish.htm

Spanish ArabicHermanitas أخواتي

Me llamo Dua دعاء اسمي أناComo estas? حالك؟ كيف

Blusa بلوزاCable حبل

Pantalón بنطلول

Sister Dua’ & Danae from

Mexico want to share with me by saying to you …

Aljamiado in

spanish

http://www.arabic-islamic.org/biblioteca/aljamiado/aljamiado.html

Ajamiyah in

Arabic

Mexican ladies look like Arabs!!!

Dua’ Aisha

Jameela & her daughter Kareema

»Arab immigration to Mexico started from19th & 20th centuries. »The present population stands at 400,000 people with Arab ancestry.»Mostly from Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, and Iraq.

“Now there are second and third generation Arabs in Mexico. But the first Arabs who came are not

there anymore”.

The secret that Ayesha noticed!!!

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D02E1DA1139F936A25756C0A962958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all

http://www.mississippiclayworks.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=TARAH-BASKETS

alsafafa

Palm fronds basketstarahumara

http://www.mississippiclayworks.com/tarah_baskets.htm

tortilleros

aljefir

Mexican hand-woven palm fronds

baskets

Mexican pottery

fakharcerámica

http://www.lafuente.com/talavera.php

http://www.mexicanconnexion.com/

Rebozo – Mexican scarf

http://www.theartofmexico.com/gallery9.htm

Traditional Mexican was so modest!

Mexican Traditional

Dress

Sister danaeTypical dress of Mexican from the state of Oaxaca,

they wear it in special celebration.

"Of course we are proud

of the Arabs, and why

should we not be? Here,

many of us in Mexico say,

'Our fathers were

Mexican but actually our

grandfathers were Arabs'

".