(Times of Israel) Barry Shaw - Most Arabs belong to tribes or clans and their family name in Arabic contains the source of where their families originated. Prominent Palestinian family names include: Almasri - Egypt; Masarwah - Egypt; Hourani - Hauran in Syria; Sourani - Tyre, Lebanon; Dibini - South Lebanon. Bushnaq - Bosnia; Iraqi - Iraq; Zarqawi - Zarqa, Jordan; Al-Karaki - Kerak, Jordan; Trabulsi - Tripoli, Lebanon; Abayat - Turkey. The writer is Senior Associate for Public Diplomacy at the Israel Institute for Strategic Studies.
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