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This article is about the Mashriq region. For other uses, see Mashriq (disambiguation)
The
Mashriq or
Mashreq (also in use:
Mashrek) (
Arabic: مشرق) is, generally speaking, the region of
Arabic-speaking countries to the east of
Egypt and north of the
Arabian Peninsula. It is derived from the Arabic
consonantal root sh-r-q (ش ر ق) relating to the east or the sunrise, and essentially means "east" (most literally or poetically, "place of sunrise").
It refers to a large area in the
Middle East, bounded between the
Mediterranean Sea and
Iran. It is therefore the corresponding term of
Maghreb (مغرب), meaning "west", which refers to the Arabic-speaking countries in the west of
North Africa. Egypt occupies an ambiguous position: while it has cultural and linguistic ties to both the Mashriq and the Maghrib, it's unique and different from both; thus it's usually seen as being part of neither. These geographical terms date from the early Islamic conquests.
This region is somewhat synonymous with
Bilad al-Sham, but also includes
Iraq and
Kuwait. It is occasionally used as a synonym for "non-Maghrib" and in these instances includes
Egypt,
Sudan, and the Arabian Peninsula.
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