Arabs in the Netherlands (Dutch:Arabieren in Nederland;Arabic:العرب في هولندا), alsoArab Dutch (Arabische Nederlanders) orDutch Arabs (Nederlandse Arabieren), are citizens or residents of theNetherlands whose ancestry traces back to theArab world.
On 8 September 2001, two Arab immigrants to the Netherlands,Egyptian-born film maker Ibrahim Farouk andMoroccan-born writer Mustafa Aboustib, launched a political party to protest what they perceived as poor representation of Arab Dutch people in mainstream political parties, except as "pretty Arab faces".[2][3]
In November 2007,Iraqi-born journalist Mohammad Mousa led a group of Dutch Arabs in protest against the private-media conglomerateAl Jazeera's effective monopoly on Arabic-language broadcasting in the country.[8][9]
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^Olgun, Ahmet (1 March 2003)."Je bent islamitisch en je wilt wat" [You are Islamic and you want something].NRC (in Dutch).Archived from the original on 8 June 2024. Retrieved8 June 2024.
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^Breemer, Anna van den (25 September 2009)."Pitbull bouwt aan wederopstanding AEL" [Pitbull is building AEL's resurrection].Nieuw Amsterdams Peil (in Dutch). University of Amsterdam.Archived from the original on 31 May 2019. Retrieved8 June 2024.
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