Have you ever seen red headed arabs?

[buddyrydell]

From what I understand, quite a few blond/red-haired light-eyed Arabs exist among the Syrians and Lebanese. The Druzes (I forget if they are Arabic-speaking or not) have a very high incidence if I'm not mistaken. I've never actually met a blond/redheaded Arab but I've seen a few photos of fair-haired Arabs, and they were from Syria. I suppose it must partially be derived from the Greeks, Romans, and Crusaders. I imagine that light hair/eyes was also a recessive trait carried by some native Levantines as well.

Out of curiosity, would anyone happen to know the approximate percentage of Anatolian Turks who have light hair/eyes?

[zain]

I have met people with red/brown hair from kashimer(India) ,Afghanistan ,north Iraq ,Syria ,and Jordan .it could be an ancien element, most likely they got it from their Russian neighbor up in the north .


buddyrydell:
duroze are Arabic Speaker

[alexandrian]

buddyrydell said:

The Druzes (I forget if they are Arabic-speaking or not) have a very high incidence if I'm not mistaken. I've never actually met a blond/redheaded Arab but I've seen a few photos of fair-haired Arabs, and they were from Syria.

The Druze are of Egyptian origin. They fled persecution from the Fatimids in Cairo and fled to the mountains of Lebanon. There is a high incidence of blond hair in Rosetta in the Egyptian Delta- likely due to Napoleon's intrusion in Egypt. I could have sworn I've seen blond-headed Bedouins in the Western Desert, and I have no idea how it happened.

[Deinokratos]

I have heard of red-haried lebanese and such, and of course Iranians(the Ottoman diplomatic distinction for Iranians translated roughly to "red-beared infidels). Red hair in other middle-eastern population could be seen as a remnant of Persian satropies.

I know that Saladin, a Kurd, was described as red-haired. Malcolm X, in his biography, mentions meeting with the "red-haired imam of Jerusalem" or something to that effect.

[MC anunnaki]

I read a parent's magazine called Vi Föräldrar (Us Parents) and they had an article about grandparents with nice pictures of grandparents and their grandchildren. On one picture was your "typical" Arabic man hugging two identical twin boys. Their names were Muhammed and Hassan or Hussein and they were white as snow with carrot-red hair, freckles and blue eyes. Now the article didn't say if they were half-Swedes, but even if they were, it's quite interesting to see that such recessive genes can manifest themselves after all (so much for the "darkening" of Sweden by Middle Easternes :. The boys looked completely Northern European, not just in colouring but in the face too. Pity I don't have the magazine left, I could have scanned the picture for you guys.

[k5125]

How about red headed or blond kurds? Anyone got pictures?

[OdinofOssetia]

In all this mumbling about the Crusaders, French, and even Druzes, you forgot the Slavs!



Read for yourselfs:

michalw.narod.ru/SlavicSpain.html

[Crimson Guard]

Red-Haired people are found in and around the mediterranean basin for over 4000 years,it has nothing to do with any forign migrations or any such group nonsense.So no Crusaders or Slavic crap.

Rames the Great had red hair along with a great number of Mediterranean people and hero's,its quite common.

[IfTheLightTakesUs]

My mom claims that all Arabs/Middle East have a "red pigment" that affects the hair color. She says how when she colors her hair it reacts like it's red. Strange.

[yigal]

i think i have that, my hair was like red brown "chestnut?" when i was younger and is now pretty black,when i try to lighten it,say bleach it it always takes a reddish tone, i dont think its a middle eastern thing as i am not middle eastern per se