Arabs in the Netherlands (
Dutch: Arabieren in Nederland;
Arabic: العرب في هولندا), also Arab Dutch (Arabische Nederlanders) or Dutch Arabs (Nederlandse Arabieren), are citizens or residents of the
Netherlands whose ancestry traces back to the
Arab world.
History
In politics
On 8 September 2001, two Arab immigrants to the Netherlands,
Egyptian-born film maker Ibrahim Farouk and
Moroccan-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 conglomerate
Al Jazeera's effective monopoly on Arabic-language broadcasting in the country.[7][8]
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