How Arabs & Greeks Are Similar
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- Arabs and Greeks, we got so much in common!
What other cultures do you wanna see with Arabs?
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I'm a Lebanese living in Greece and yes the transition was very simple because of how much similarities exist between cultures. Μπράβο Mark!
Yallah
Hummos luqmadis
In which city do you live αδερφε? Εγω ειμαι απο την Καλαματα
@@alexalex-si4hl Neas Smyrni
@@alexalex-si4hl Athens
I’m Cypriot Greek and we have some words from Arabic too! Like “mashalla”, we usually use it to praise someone. It is used though in the Cypriot dialect, not in formal Greek language :)
Αλήθεια στην Κύπρο το λέτε; Ενδιαφέρον! Υπάρχουν και άλλες λέξεις από τα αραβικά;
@@AAtha_ ναι η παττίχα. Δεν ξέρω άλλες χαχα. Αυτές είναι οι μόνες αραβικές κυπριακές λέξεις που ξέρω.
I Love George Michael, even if hes Greek Cypriot Mixed with britian mother of half jewish Origin, He still have Something from levantines his big Eyes and his look..hes so good Looking ..greetings to Cyprus from lebanon
Masha(will)Allah(God) “God's will”
@@AAtha_ παρά πολλές! Κοίταξε τα comments
*As a Greek, when I see the words Greece/Greek in a title I tap on the video😂. Also very interesting video*
Since you are greek, why do you think Arabs call your nation "Yunan"?
When you call it "Halas" or close to that in Greek?
@@octavioust.talium9110 it's the first time I hear about "Yunan" to be honest so I did a lil Google search and I found this:
"Why are Greeks called Greek in English, Yunan in Turkish and Arabic, Ellines in Greek?" hellenisteukontos.opoudjis.net/2015-10-18-why-are-greeks-called-greek-in-english-yunan-in-turkish-and-arabic-ellines-in-greek/
I hope it helps you :)
@@kiriaki1122
Thanks
Greetings to Orthodox Greece.
This is similar also between us and you 🙏
Don't forget that Greek culture has spread through the entire world. The Greeks and we the Arabs have a strong friendship for many centuries. Let's increase this friendship and grow strong together.
Greek culture never spread to entire world. bs
@@supermavro6072don’t you ever heard of the hellenism Period? Till cleopatra died Hellenism was instantly in all Middle East and North Africa. So you truly believe greek culture had no influence??? Todays Palestinians have their roots in Crete!!! (By time they mixed with Arabs, but this shows us even more the Greek influence. Or don’t you know the Kalash in Pakistan? They are still claiming to be descendants of Alexander the Great and his troops.
Yeah well if you greeks or persians never arrived Wed have all the egyptian secrets. Now we are stuck with some shit ass collosus thats not even there.
@@supermavro6072 Greeks spread Greek culture East, the Romans spread Greek culture North. He probably meant the Western world, unlike Asian or Arab. Asians, especially Chinese, have had as great culture as the Greeks. Arabs got into obscurantism due to Islam, unfortunately, and everything was lost.
Greetings to Greece from an Arab , love the music and culture
shukran jazilan
❤
A jew told me that his culture and the Arab culture is a copy of Greek we do most the same . We have so much fun Now All of us have to push our music into the American stream and shake the West to belly dance and that will be the rest of the world dancing. When you grow up with Greek and middle eastern, your open to others but you still listen to yours most of the time so we need to make Americans appreciate the love of music which is a way to find peace its like the love language. Politicians ruin our chances of peace in the world.!!!!!!!! A Greek monk had said if America did not axist there would be peace in the world. Of course he didn't mean the people, its the evil ones those leaders who have destroyed the people's minds and the chance for world peace. :D
My grandma was Greek, I'm from Serbia, I've been studying Arabic (Masry) for 2 years. I love your videos, specially those dealing with similarities. In Serbia we have many of the things that you mentioned here... be it the Ottoman or Greek or any other influence, but I feel that I'm a part of one huge family that has its origins in the Mediterranean part of the world. Stay safe!
Most of the towns/cities on the Med coast have been trading with each other for like 3,000 years... Of course there're so many similarities! Food doesn't get that good by staying in isolation 😉.
i feel the same way, man 😁
I self study by asking what this means and that to have more understanding of the music. its like listening to my music in a different language. I want to influence Americans and others to make our music influence with their language so they can get into it. opa!!!!!!!! I grew up in America but I'm spoiled. Once you listen to our music, nothing else sounds as good. Country music is basically what I like in American music and some pop songs here and there but even the pop songs in Greek and in the Middle East. even Pashto I did. sounds better. Check out how Elena Paparaizou ( former Antique ) sings in English and sometimes she does the songs half Greek and Arash and their singers and they do songs half English like temptation Push our beautiful music make the East make the West Dizzy and crazy :D. ( dizzy meaning to make them go crazy for something)
I speak Masry arabic it’s actually just the Egyptian accent and masry is the Accented word for Egyptian
from Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦
Long live Greece 🇬🇷
Saudi arabia🤮🤮
Greece🤮🤮🤮
@@yarenguney6410
Return the phone to your mother, little girl
@Mariana Trench Dolphin ok.
@@Ix.MSH888 go back to your desert arab.
mashallah from greece 🇸🇦💗🇬🇷
As a Greek and Egyptian I love this MashAllah
I believe that Greeks have a lot in common with levant Arabs not exactly all Arabs .
@محمد رائد actually these are things we do here in Iraq, idk about the others.
not really they share similarities with north afrikaners and gulf states too rlly. But correct it’s mostly with lebant
Non-bedouin gulf Arabs aren't as different as you think from the levant Arabs. I'm saying this as someone from a small village in the mountains of Oman (far a way from the levant), but we're not all Bedouins or relating to the Bedouin culture in the gulf (I think people tend to think so because most popular gulf media is from UAE, who are mostly Bedouins).
In fact, I was surprised to find more in common watching people in mountainous villages of Morocco and Lebanon on TH-cam (in terms of the environment, architecture, traditions, even food sometimes and overall culture) than our Bedouin neighbours in UAE and in the Omani deserts, which makes sense because the environment is drastically different so people adapt differently to different environments.
It's freaky sometimes how a Moroccan village would look exactly like an Omani village even though we're miles and miles apart, literally different continents, but we have shared a very similar culture for a long time in history. For an example, Google Imlil valley in Morocco and Jabal Akhdar in Oman or balad sayt or misfat al abriyeen. You can even see some similarities between Sur (tyre) Lebanon and Sur Oman being port cities (and having relatively similar architecture). Of course Omani Sur is a much smaller city in comparison, we've never had a big population in Oman so our cities remained relatively small compared to the western Arabia (mostly because of the arid weather I'd guess).
Probably one of the biggest differences between us in the east and Mediterranean Arabia is that while you've been at some points of history under the Greek and Roman empires, we've usually been under the Persian empires.
@محمد رائد we don't dance like that in Morrocco .and our food is different. The rest is the same, but we use a lot of olive oil and tomatoes in all our food.
@@Dana-pm9td no that's a lie stop saying that.
Arabs usually say "mashallah" when praising someone to avoid accidentally giving them the evil eye 😉
Yep
This is not Arabs this is Muslims , Muslim is thing and Arabian is completely an other thing .
@@kaychovskydestroy9861
Mashalla in Arabic means God willing, so how it's completely another thing as you have said!?
@@ahmad_mido its not used by all arabs
Only muslim
@@farhansameer2624
where are you from brother
"You have 3 cousins? HAHAHAHAHA that's cute" that part killed me
lol me to hahahha
I have 62 cousins we are like a tribe on our own.
@@adamlteif4004 i have 73 cousins + i am 1 of 8 kids. some times i forget my siblings names hahaha
I have 30 cousins
G'ma & G'pa' plus their siblings total 15. Like I could count my cousins without pen and paper to graph it all out, lol. 😂😂
I’m Greek.
1) drinking Turkish/Greek/Arabic coffee and having an auntie read your fortune
2) tavli/tawle
3) arguing about who’ll pay when out for a meal or drinks
4)komboloi/masbiha
5) asking someone you’ve just met a lot of questions, even personal ones
6) the belief that time is relative and negotiable
The 5 though 🤣
😂😂😂😂👍🏽
Usually gypsies read the coffee cups, its not really common to see a Greek do it, also komboloi is different from the praying beads used in Islam. Komboloi is just a worry bead and its not related to religion.
I'm Greek.
1) I do not drink coffe I drink tea my dear. I also do not believe in this prediction shit.
2) Tavli is lame.
3) Me and my friends always pay for themselves(it is the fair thing to do).
4) No.
5) When I meet someone I behave accordingly by not asking him personal things that he would not feel comfortable sharing with a total stranger.
6) I do my best to be panctual.
@@johnwick3846 oh you are a traitor hahahah ofcourse but he means the geberal mindset which holds for all the Mediterranean sea
I'm from Algeria, in our native kabyle amazigh language we use one word in common with the greeks, " Thora which means now, the exacte same word and meaning also in this part of Algeria Thoura, to say now. Because it a very old greek byzantine word, as we used to be one empire.
Ewaa kom je uit Tizi Ouzou
@@maassrddd ja dat klopt.
Lebanese lessons?
yallah! I'm currently trying to learn Arabic Lebanese dialect for speech purposes.
it's my favourite dialect(mostly because of you Mark).
you will enjoy it i swear🤣
Greeks and arabs have been part of the same empire many times. They are really similar.
Most recently the Ottomans.
You Either know nothing about arabs or nothing about Greeks to say that they are similar www.quora.com/Are-Greeks-and-Arabs-genetically-related/answer/Georgia-Marliakou
I hope this comment is a joke lol
@@artemip625 IKR 🤣
The Levant are not Arabs
Greetings to greek people from dubai uae i love your ancient culture i know we had some problems in the past but I believe we can overcome this and live together with peace respect am planning to visit greece in the future 🇦🇪 🇬🇷
we had issues with UAE??? when? sorry but never heard on the greek news we actually did. For what was the issue?
@@Gigi-us4jk i was talking with arabs un general greeks and the arabs mybe am mistaken and we actually are good friends who knows i never visited greece before but i am sure i will in the future
@@gustavo4431 lol which arabs? uae arabs? totally different in every aspect when I can think of of greeks and arabs. Arabian peninsula arabs are different then the arabs of lebanon or else where in the mediterranean.
Khan Tervel defeated the Arabs and save Constantinople and East Europe
@@gustavo4431 Unfortunately some Greeks are ignorant towards Arabs and hold them in a very negative regard, likewise some Arabs see Greeks as westerners with no culture and have no real respect for them. Other Greeks respect and love the Arab world, in places like Egypt and Lebanon, it’s not so uncommon for people to still be carrying a Greek surname or have Greek roots due to there being Greek community presence in the past even if they’re now mostly localised. It’s a perculiar thing really!
There are certainly some deep rooted connections particularly in the Eastern Mediterranean side of the Arab world with the Greeks and secondly between the whole Mediterranean side of Arab world with the other European Mediterranean societies also.
In Greece we have a medieval legend Basil Digenes Akritas, who was half Greek half Arab. He was a protector of the borders of the Eastern Roman Empire and did various archetypal heroic acts, like fight a lion, a group of bandits, a dragon and an Amazon.
@AHMED ALGHANIM Wikipedia says otherwise
I am greek syrian and everything you said is 100% true !!! I would like to add that greeks also use hand gestures when speaking as well as their eyes and eyebrows.. And last but not least the shahata (slipper) punishment was also a very popular greek educational method..!! I really enjoy your videos!Looking forward for your next one!
was??? I still see it flying around some times, flip flop punishment now, before was whatever slipper.
Unless you are both Greek and syrian, when you are in either of the two countries its nothing like the other
@@jackie5918 i think you're not Greek but Slav living in Greece
Ahh! Back from my TH-cam detox! Hey Mark! 😘😘 so happy you're still here! 🤣🤣🤣
Russians do that spitting too, but it's tfoo tfoo tfoo and not ftoo, we also knock on wood 3 times
we also knock on the wood 3 times after we spit in ourselves in Greece 😂😂
In morocco we also have the tfeh thing but pronounce it as tfou. For example : Tfou aalik baeed meni.
Also theres a similar dance to dabkeh kinda, it's called raggada, specific to eastern morocco.
Loving the vids as always !!!
Yess!
Lol
We use Tfou also in Palestine
@محمد رائد oh yeah im well aware i just felt like pointing out some pedantic facts, it is after all the comment section, is it not
@@The2009zineb hey ?? We dance like Greeks ? Where ?? I never saw it and I'm Morroccan
As a Greek Cypriot, this is just way too familiar. We are likely directly decended from Greece and the Levant. Infact you look like you could be a family member!
to be fair, mainland Greece is quite different from the Levant, and from all aspects. It's mainly Cyprus which is similar, but Cyprus is usually already seen as a Levant country
@@giannisb2721 yes probably and it depends how you compare and to which country in the levant. But there are quite many similarities between mainland, island and Cyprus if you compare with Lebanon for example. But the true greeks and closest related to ancient greeks are the Cypriots and Greek islanders while greeks from the mainland are highly mixed and probably don’t even have a lot of greek blood in them specially those in the north..
@@simonvs5401 Remember Egypt was ruled by GREEKS.... just saying. Cleopatra was Greek.
Know that. you're just an Arab who got europeanized
Nice video mark, didn't know most of these
We have the bad eye in Italy too. It's literally called "malocchio", meaning "male"=bad occhio"=eye. It doesn't have am image tho.
in Tunisia too! It's everywhere
Okulus in Latin, oko in Slavic languages, ophtalmo in Greek, eye and auge in English and German. I found you little sneaky Indo European connection
We have it in Turkeyyy too, Nazar 🧿 boncuğu (bonyuu)
In portuguese it's similar to italian.. "mau-olhado"
@@fabioaraujo8379 Of course because you've been latinised
I loved this one sooooooo much 😂❤️
Many greetings from a Greek living in Germany and loving Arabic language/ music/ culture a lot! 🙏🏽
Ρε είσαι ότι καλύτερο ❤️❤️❤️🇸🇾🇸🇾
❤️❤️🇬🇷🇯🇴
Wie kannst du dein eigenes Land so verraten, wtf.
Hallo Habibi helade from Syrian- German Ouzo/Arak 🥛 cheers
🇬🇷❤️🇸🇦
Arabs greeks and even Sicilians all have connections . in fact ,Sicilians have more similarities to greeks and Arabs than actual italians .
True, southern Italians are barely white
As usual Mark you are the best good job 👏👏👏
I am Jewish. Many Eastern European Jews have the spitting away the evil eye, in common with Greeks and Arabs. However, we pronounce it "too too too".
Hahaha thank you Mark! As a greek that LOVES anything arabic-related, i liked the video before it would even load for me.
Also the hand gestures...i watched your video about hand gestures and we had -if not the same- very identical moves. :-)
Haha 😂 I love your videos you always lift my mode ❤️ I live in Lebanon but sadly we might have to leave after this pandemic but love you mark what you say is always sooo accurate 😊❤️💙
I visited Greece once and I was is this an Arabic country ? 😂 they looked exactly like us
Myself as an arab having 26 cousins laughed so hard when that "3 cousins cute" came up
Family is also important in my culture also . We also share food for example Halwa. When a guest enters our house we serve huge amount of food before they even ask. We too have a stereotype of being late. Lots of love from Kerala India
Halwa which literally translates to حلوة
Means candy in arabic
@@aliabusaleh419 All I wanted to say is that we have Arab influence in our food because of trade. That is why in South India you have lots of religions like Christianity, Zoroastrianism, Judaism and Islam because of trade with the Middle East
Countries like the UAE Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar and Oman use to use Indian Rupees during 1959 to 1966
@@aliabusaleh419 Thank you for the information
@@georgefenrirtyson no problem
I am greek, and honestly any sort of contact with the arabic world feels like home to me! I would say our cultures are like 60-70% similar, if not more. Not to mention outside appearance, there's no way to tell us apart. And I love it too! Especially the cheekiness we all share, and the unpredictability!
Greetings from Greece❣️🌹
We love Greece from Egypt 🇪🇬✨🇬🇷
we love greece from lebanon
The Irish are also famous for our big families. I myself have 45 first cousins
So you got like 4-5 uncles/aunts from each parents and on average each has 5 children
@خربــز not bedouins just Arabs (true Arabs)
They are similar to true Arabs from Arabia not in culture just in bravery and their fighting spirits
@ 𖤍ᴾᴴᴼᴱᴺᴵˣ كندة
@ 𖤍ᴾᴴᴼᴱᴺᴵˣ لا من الامارات 😂😂 من قبيلة الحكلي من كندة و اصلي من ظفار
I'm a Morroccan and except from the Dance and the food that is different from Greeks everything else in the video is similar.What have in common more with Greeks is the use of olive oil and all types of olives in our food .But Arabs of the Levant have a lot in common with the Greeks religion wise, food, and more
As a Greek, when i was in morocco i felt nothing like being in Greece, completely alien people and culture. The person speaking in the video is a 3rd generation arab american with little contact to real arabic world
"Religion wise" I didnt know the Levant was Greek Orthodox now lmao
@@jackie5918 you are not Greek as well. Just a third generation "greek" from America that does not know anything about life and culture in Greece, just visiting Myconos in the summer and thinks Greece is an American colony. Stfu finally
@@artemip625 Greeks lived in the Levant before converting to the Orthodox church..Google Greek civilization in Damascus . I think Queen Europa was Greek and lived in Damascus. All civilizations are born from middle east
@@jackie5918 of course ! We only have old Roman Empire cities , we have little to do with Greeks though its a Mediterranean culture full of olive oil and have white and blue house in Northern Morrocco like some Greek villages and thats all we have in common.
You're very similar to us Sicilians our hands fly while we speak
I mean like he said we are all related, most Mediterranean people are related to Phoenicians and Greeks
Sicilia is an ancient Greek colony, 3.000 years ago, islanders. They still speak Greek in numerous areas. In general, south Italy, Magna Grecia.
I mean I'm Tunisian and I see much more commonality of South Europeans with the rest of the non-European Mediterranean world (North Africa,Levantine Middle East and Anatolia) rather than Nordic/Central Europe.
We lived together one day 🌹
@@a.s.4579 Exactly Princess
Egypt probably has the most similarities to Greece, as the Greeks did rule Egypt for a period. Also Egypt shares a similar language (besides Arabic) called Coptic. The Coptic language was a mix between the Greek alphabet and hieroglyph. Coptic can be found spoken in Egyptian churches if anyone is interested. Egypt also shares a loooooooooooooooooottttttttttttt of food with the Greeks from shawarma, kofta, stuffed grape leaves, macaroni with bashamel, yogurt salad, and soooooo much more.
Honestly, being in athens is as similar with being to cairo as Being to beijing or congo. Do you seriously expect that people riding camels in the dessert dressed in an arabic way, or egyptian women in hijabs, are from even one freaking aspect similar to Greeks? British ruled india, are Indians similar to British?
@@jackie5918 actually the way you're saying we live in deserts and ride camels can tell how much you need to educate yourself. And he's actually right tho, we do have quite a lot of similarities..
@@raneemsoliman3462 depending on how you define the "quite a lot", being in egypt, lebanon or syria, 99% of things that you will see have nothing to do with what you will see in Greece (having been myself to these countries i can know better than you i think). Other than that, you should know that riding camels is something pretty common in arabic countries, just like arid climate is. Being around the pyramids of giza in nothing like being in acropolis of athens, just like being in the old town of damascus has nothing to do with the old town of Athens
@@jackie5918 we're not even talking about how the countries look like we're talking about our cultures and stuff like that smh, mate u don't even know me to say you know more than I do! Cause you clearly don't, we have nothing to do with riding camels and living in deserts that's the stereotype life y'all think we have which is 100% false. You made s freaking big deal out of nothing, stay mad.
@@jackie5918 ur literally the only person here who says that so yea u know nothing. And I'm done replying to you fr
I’m Egyptian
If I did dna testing the only result that wouldn’t offend me other than Egyptian is Greek
We’re practically the same but one of us overdoes the olive stuff
Greeks and Arabs are the same except for language and religion
🇬🇷❤️🇪🇬
I'm a Ndebele(a tribal group mostly based in western Zimbabwe.)we are close cousins to the Zulu.
We also value family and community.
Let me just say we armenians have the same matisma?nazar we call it char achq, we have three time spiting tu tu tu, we have round dance called shurjpar, berd, qochari, etc, the family values are the same, we say qele just like ela and yalla, and our alphabet has apparent and coverd similarities just like yours. Thank you for nice video)
0:59 in my region in Lebanon when someone says a bad thing we say "teff mn temmak" (spit it out of your mouth) so we say "teff teff" and "la sama7 Allah" (hope God won't allow it to happen)
Plus i found many words in commun between arabic and greek:
Κεραμιδι قرميد(qarmid) roof tiles
Πορτουκάλι برتقالي(bourtouqali) orange
Ντόνια دنيا(dounia) world
Καστανό كستناء(kastana) chestnut
φασόλι فاصوليا(fasoulia) beans
Ρύζι a commun word between semetic languages and european languages including french(riz), english(rice), arabic أرز(arouz), hebrew אורז(orez), amharic/tigrynia ሩዝ(rouzi), i am missing the aramaic one since there are no reliable ressources on the internet
Edit: other commun things i found are the affirmation and negation gestures:
For negation: we nod the head upwards, move the eyebrows, or click the tongue.
For affirmation: we nod downwards, say eh, or closing then opening eyes.
small correction, it's Πορτοκάλι in Greek, Πορτουκάλι is only in dialect spoken in only one region in Greece.
For negation, apart the rest that we do them, we don't click the tongue we say ts or tsou.
as greek I will say we are brothers !!!!! we are the same culture food lifestyle 🇬🇷🇱🇧🇸🇦
So true John. Big hugs and lots of love from a Middle Eastern Levantine Arab Shia Muslim(Shia Islam) woman.
You have never been to ANY arabic country, have you? Being ANYWHERE in the middle east is nothing like being in Greece
@@arabicmusiclady1428 there is nothing true about his statement. We have nothing in common with you and your hijabs
@@jackie5918 Of course you can't compare our amazing countries in the middle west with Greece.it's just funny. The Greeks are the most hypocritical people in the world.
And really now,have you problem with ur hijab but with the Nigab which wear,Maria the mother of Jesus ,Agia Katerine etc not?
@@jackie5918 grerks are arabs
Well said
Could have substituted either Arabs or Greeks in the title for Russians and the whole video still would’ve been accurate
Seriously now, almost eveything the video shows applies to most of people around the world, maybe except for a couple of "Germanic" countries or oceania and east asia. There is nothing "Greko-arabic" about 99% of the things being shown here
@@jackie5918 agreed.
صباخ الخير على الجميع من الجزائر 🇩🇿
My friend is greek and she sent me this saying you started with the deepest thing!
I remember the first time I was invited to experience Ramadan with some friends who are Muslim obviously. I’ll never forget at the end of the day when we were all facing together, and I asked my friend why they are serving Greek food. They said no this is Middle Eastern. I said no this is what my family makes. That’s when I started to realize how much we really haven in common
I'm from Mexico. And is amazing that we have some things in common. We have "el mal de ojo", wich is the belief that something bad can happen to us if someone looks us in a bad or envy manner, and we use a charm to ward off from it. Also, we love family and we live all family in a single house, aunties, cousins, brothers, grandpas, etc. Families are HUGE. And έλα! is like a common expression here "¡Ándale!".
90% of things that Arabs think they share with "Greeks" are actually common in the 90% of the world
We live in the same area of the world if you think about it. In the central region so we also all look alike Greeks, Mexicans, Arabs etc. Greetings from Greece
wow first of all 0:15 the evil eye is original to hellas and btw it dates back to Greek Classical antiquity. It is referenced by Hesiod, Callimachus, Plato, Diodorus Siculus, Theocritus, Plutarch, Heliodorus, Pliny the Elder, and Aulus Gellius. Peter Walcot's Envy and the Greeks (1978) listed more than one hundred works by these and other authors mentioning the evil eye also we had our ups and downs in the byzantine empire era xD
that doesn't mean we didn't take it from the Arabs, mostly Phoenicians, like we did with the alphabet.
@@Gigi-us4jk hellenes did not take nothing from phoenicians thats just a myth do you know how phoenicians pronounce letter A? S thats just bullshiet you mean to tell me hellenes where capable to creat vowels and not consonants? thats pure trash just a myth from israel
@@Youdontdreamincryo where are you from ?
I'm Greek and I live in Greece since my birth. I love Arabic culture and language, I would really love to learn Arabic and I'm planning to. Everything you mentionned in the video is sooo correct. I love Greece so much !! The Greek people are so friendly and even if you don't know someone they are going to talk to you like they know you ! Greece has a big history and of course beautiful places to visit ! :)
I love Greece! Would love to visit when I can! We’re actually launching Lebanese-Arabic lessons December 1st on patreon for 10$/month if you’re interested. You’d love it. Here’s the link: www.patreon.com/MarkHachem
Thanks for your kind words! 🇬🇷 ❤️ 🇱🇧
@@MarkHachem when you visit Greece, so yourself a favor and make an unbiased comparison, because cherry-picking things common around the entire world (like dabke and syrtaki, lol as if the rest of the world has no similar circle dances) will not make you similar to us. I see arabic people ebery day, rhey are not similar to us
@@jackie5918 The levant has always been in contact with other countries in the eastern Mediterranean, especially ones that are geographically close. In fact since the dawn of human civilisation significant trade happened between the earliest inhabitants of the levant and Greece. Greece and Phoenicia traded so much that the Greek alphabet is an evolution of the Phoenician alphabet. The Greek Alphabet later spread to other parts of Europe and was the ancestor of the Latin and Cyrillic script.
This is just the tip of the iceberg, so much Greek mythology takes place in parts of the levant and many of the myths and stories still circulate till this day and have major cultural significance.
Just one example includes Europa:
In Greek mythology, Europa was the mother of King Minos of Crete, a Phoenician princess, after whom the continent Europe is named after.
Similar religious beliefs and ideas are still common. The Greek Orthodox Church is the second largest Christian domination amongst Lebanese people.
So much of the culture and the cuisine between the two is similar and typical to Mediterranean culture. In fact many foods are prepared extremely similarly and many also share same names.
This extends from Meze to desert and to drinks. Obviously there are differences between the cuisines but the similarities are uncanny.
I recommend reading a bit more on the history of the eastern Mediterranean. Both prehistory and modern history.
Furthermore, this video is more about Levantine Arabs than all of Arabia since Arabia is a very large place with many different cultures, ethnicities, and cultures within. You can’t generalise all of Arabia as one entity and culture. The distances in Arabia are vast and there are many geographic, climate, cuisine, linguistic, religious, historic and cultural differences. As an example of how vast the distances are, the distance between Beirut (a city in Lebanon, in the levant) and Athens is almost half that of Beirut to Dubai.
Obviously there are differences. Every region in the world has differences. But regions that are closely related to each other and connected throughout millennia will , no doubt, share many similarities.
I don’t know why you are insulted by this as it is part of the history of how civilisations work and cultures spread and share with each other - its a really beautiful thing. Both Greece and the Levant are located in the Mediterranean Sea which is the birthplace of major human civilisation. Civilisations in the Mediterranean Sea are known for trade and ship building, so its no doubt that there are similarities.
No one is saying that Greece and the Levant are carbon copies of each other, the video is just highlighting similarities between the Levant and Greece, places that have shared extremely close and positive relationships characterised by respect and trust since early antiquity and to this day.
@@jackie5918 We are not similar to you and we don't want to be, but I think the video's intention is good so let's enough useless comments.
"Expert spell destroyer "=giagia (grandmother in greek)
Great video, love from Greece!!
Greek here! I'm watching your videos for ages and since I travel a lot in Middle East I could always spot these similarities. I was expecting that video like desert for rain! You made my day! Greetings from Athens! ❤️
Dude, I know it's irrelevant, but you should try to sing. Your voice has something to it. Greets from Greece!
My dad is greek turkish and i agree there are lots of similarities between the two.
i'm from serbia, we spit three times and say daleko bilo, which means let it (the trouble) be far away
Cyprus + Lebanon ❤
As an Egyptian, we have many many similarities with the Greeks. Hard to distinguish Athens from Alexandria in terms of population looks. Athens is more scenic and beautiful though
Yes, because if anything, when you visit Athens, males are dressed in Arabic male dress, Meanwhile women wear hijabs, like egyptian women, let alone how brown skinned Greeks are, and how inequal the two genders in Greece are... Dude, ever considered to visit Athens, to see how f****nothing in common the two cities (and two countries in general) are?
@@jackie5918 to be fair, Greeks are quite dark-skinned
@YouDontDreamInCryo she’s probably dark-skinned herself
@@elainebenez1995 we are not
@@nickb1156 yes you are. I’ve been to your country and have Greek friends of my own. You’re all golden/light brown
Great video thanks!
Mark, we have much more similarities.
We share same instruments in our traditional music such as the oud, the qanun, the sandur, the zurna, the davul, the darbuka and possibly more. In the Greek language we use Arabic based words such as κιτάπι (from كتاب), τεφτέρι (from دافتر), χαλάλι (from حلال), or the verb χαραμίζομαι (from حرام), we use a word called κουλουβάχατα which may mean that someone is been confused or he has screwed up and its coming from كل and وهذا, Greeks from Cyprus, use the word "Mashallah" as well... Indeed the Arabic music is been based on the Greek/Byzantine music and that's why both the Greek and the Byzantine music share the same scales with the Arabic music such Rast, Saba, Hijaz, Ousak and so on...
There are possibly many more things that we have in common...
By the way, sirtaki is not a traditional dance, we have nearly 6000 traditional dances spread all over Greece such as Tsamiko, Syrto, Kalamatiano, Pentozali, Serra, Tik, Omal, Dipat, Raiko, Gaida, Zonaradiko, Dimitroula, Kavodoritiko, embropis, tiz, Patrunino, Pusteno, Tamsara, Sygathisto, Malevisiotis, Baidouska, Koursariko, karsilamas, traditional Zeibekiko (which is not the form most of the people are used to these days) and many many many more...
Να 'σαι καλά يا صديقي!
Actually Hi my Greek friend, I’m Arabian and I can confirm you that Daftar is a Persian word not Arabic, but Kitab and Sifr are Arabic words, also we have Greek word for paper and book like "khártēs", “قرطاس" "qarṭas"
You literraly described anatolian Greeks only, and hardly cypriots. Everything you said above have little or nothing to do with mainland Greece
Mainland Greeks have much more to do with slavs or Italians than anything in the middle east
@@maritsa1985 because what he says is far from reality. He describes things as "pan-Greek" which in fact hardly exist among asia minor Greeks and like you said, Cypriots. Mainland Greeks are faaaar from really sharing things in common with middle eastern people
@@maritsa1985 you cant judge a nation by diasporas, especially diasporas close to the middle east
@@maritsa1985 whatever you want, the fact that the BULK of Greeks (Mainlanders and islanders) are nothing like arabs in contrast to what these people say doesnt exist
Based on my 20 years of experience as being a Greek I can confirm that everything is absolutely true. Plus we both share the same rampant forestasion since adolescence 🧔🏽
J2 haplogroup
Mystery solved😜
Cheers from mount lebanon!🍷
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Next you should do how Arabs and Slavs are similar
Count squatting as the first similarity
@@yettobeengineer2528 😹😹😹👍
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Bosnians are muslim slavs
But they don't have any similarities with arab
Only turks
Evil eye is a thing in India as well. There are even charms to ward off is effect.
I need moreee i loved your video
Palestinian here and have 43 first cousins.
İ have like 93 cousins
Back in the day having 5 children was like having 1 in today's standards 😂😂😂
I am Greek here, and have 8 first cousins. Like most of Greeks. Much of the video doesn't really apply on Greek society and culture, to be honest. Arabic people are not considered familiar here
I'm Greek and I have about 25 first cousins 😂
Probably the turks were the bridge between these two cultures
Yes that’s very true but these idiots don’t have that kind of knowledge
Yes, but Turks are a lot closer to Arabs than to Greeks
@@giannisb2721 no they’re fucking not, Arabs aren’t close to anyone
@@giannisb2721 It changes Turkey's west to east, north to south, inner to outer. Turkey is culturally diverced
@@giannisb2721 Yes, Turks lived together with Arabs in Anatolia, Istanbul and Greece for hundreds of years.
You're doing a great job! love this video!
Greeks and Levanite arabs have alot of things not with arabs in general.
Me: -greek-
My dad: has 4 siblings
My cousins: 54+
Me: -laughing really hard-
Dude I'm so happy you made this,,in New York I'm greek and I'm exposed to Arab culture and it is so similar that is almost identical on so many things. Sometimes it feels like home
As Algerian, whenever I travel to greece on holiday, I can't help it but I never felt like I was in foreign country, and therefore it has always been country n°1 where I spend my holidays.
@@mb8kr Greeks and Arabs are brothers
Are you saying that Greeks smoke hookah, wear hijabs, ride camels and listen to oriental music and dance to belly dance? Or that they worrship allah and Mohamed? Because this is what the entire world knows Arabic cultures for. If you think that any of these things are shared with Greeks, then there are serious issues with you
@@mb8kr because i guess in Greece you saw a lot of women in hijabs, cubic yellow houses without tilled rooftops, bazaars, hookahs, males dressed in Arabic style, mosques etc, right? I really wonder where in Greece is this part that would really resemble algeria From a single feckin aspect, so would you like to tell us where in Greece you have been to?
@@jackie5918 Greek music is very oriental influenced and a ton of Greek women belly dance
This guy is a global ambassador
Orange in Greek = portokáli
Orange in Arabic = Bortoqala/برتقالة
Mark, can you make some videos about Italy, Spain or even malta maybe a comparison of them with Arab culture. I'm a big fan and keep making these master pieces
malta is like Tunisia but europinized
Salam mark, im a syrian and wallahi i never knew greek was the lingua franca of the levant during antiquity.
It wasn't, Levantinians had their own languages.
@@DiabBinGhanimAlHilali It was the Greeks who ruled the Levantine for centuries, also the Greek language was the lingua franca of the trade.
@@armatolos_1234 discord.gg/Yj2yusGHqU
@@armatolos_1234 discord.gg/Yj2yusGHqU
1:15 we also do this in serbia at some point haha
Can u do arbs and deshies plz. Tganks love ur videos
not sure about this but in lebanon when a glass breaks we say "the evil is broken" (inkasar el shar) and that's considered a good sign, and i know in greece they break glass in certain ceremonies, so there might be a connection there
Yeah, when a glass (or literally anything else) breaks Greeks are like "good luck, good luck!"
@@celseac8107 not a mirror though, a mirror is bad luck in Greece.
You should do between Arabs and Persians.
It would at least make sense, unlike any comparison between Greece and any Arabic country
@@jackie5918 Greeks mentality are more similar to Arabs than Persians. I know Greeks are European and have a different religion and costume but mentality is another thing. Arabs talk and laugh loudly like other southern Europeans. While in Iran it's rude. I can't talk about in general because always it has an exception. Iran also has many kinds of culture. So I can't say generally. But in a city where I live it's very rude laughing loudly and showing emotions. In my idea I think Greeks are Mediterranean Europeans with some similar mentalities with middle Eastern countries. Family gathering is also common in Iran but people aren't as funny as people of Mediterranean countries. Greeks also I think similar to Iranians. They are both hospitable countries and have a kind people. But our religion and costumes are very different.
We had 30 cousins for Easter just a small gathering for Greeks
Good for you in focusing on positives and similarities instead of (often over emphasised ) differences. 👍
"Greeks and arabs have too much in common".. did you wonder if differences are extremely more than our similarities? Let me make a comment: you said families are similar.. really? According to emmanuel todds study, Greeks have the most different family structure from arabs in Europe: nuclear family vs arabic community-endogamous one
Let alone that many of the things in the video do not make up similarities. Cicrcle dances are global, not Greek or arab in particular. And many dances in Europe are extremely closer to Greek than dabke is.
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How about our low fertility rates? Our government is paying our women to have children, i dont understand the having at least 30 cousins part.
@@artemip625 the guy in the video has obviously no idea what he is talking about, and either he is a 3rd generation American Arab with no actual contact with the arabic world, or has no idea about anything regarding Greece. Greece has absolutely no actual similarity with Egypt, Syria iraq etc let alone the arabian peninsula
Dabke has great similarities with Cretan and Pontiac dances, if Syrtaki doesn't satisfy you
@@celseac8107 have you ever heard about an dro? Its a bretonic dance, nearly identical in movements to most of mainland Greek dances. I can give several similar examples from allover the continent. But you seem to fail getting the point: being in Athens, is from every aspect nothing like being around the cairo or damascus, and if you are a Greek (anx especially a woman from Greece) you should feel offended by this video
@@celseac8107 mate ignore him, he's the only one mad about this video literally I'm finding him fighting everywhere lol
I never knew we had such a connection with the Greeks. That's so awesome!
You dont. 90% of things shown here are international (lol see how Arabs in this video are "close tp Greeks" by shish-souvlaki comparison, as if other European countries dont have skewers like arrosticini, pinchitos etc) and being in Greece is nothing like being in any arabic country. The video is extremely misleading
@@jackie5918 shut up
@@petrosk.7838 offended tourkospore?
We don't.
@@alexatsiava930 you greeks arab ✔️
I'm syrian who lives in Cyprus 🇨🇾🇸🇾🙋♂️
Refugee
@@captanphillips7794 so what?
@@captanphillips7794 u bastard
Your society was already made up of refugees, millions of people came from Greece to Turkey after the Greek-Turkish war at the last century.
Greeks also have the "fteu" when they are angry or when something badlucking happened
That big family thing was so on point, i have like 35+ cousins.......😂😂😂😂
same
I can't even count my cousins ... I'm serious.
@@yuzan3607 😂😂😂😂
😹👍my grandpa had 13 child and every uncle I have has at least 4+ children so u can guess how many I have
@@user-rawi he created a tribe him self😂
I think i love you even more now
Keep it going man , I feel someday you will have your own famous show 🔥👍👍
بالشكل يتشابه اليونانيين مع السوريين شمال سوريا وحتى بالعادات يتشابهون
Beautiful Mediterranean cultures, at the end of the day.
Everyone who is un European(excluding Russian and Balkans and Greece) and anyone from USA and Canada won't understand this video
Also Italians
Not even some Greeks. The uploader knows Greece from movies and stereotypes
@@jackie5918 shut it, you are out of control
Im a greek girl that loves debke music! Definitely feel Greek culture is the closest to Arab culture rather than European (except for Italy)!
Love the spell destroyer image🤣 love the funny way of presenting those examples🤣👍super fun
Greeks seeing this thinking it's a difference that they have Dolmades thinking it's all (Mahshi,Yabraq or Yalangi) in Arabic...
Iraq: Hold my Dolmah 😂😂😂
Exactly hahahahha
I’m Saudi and I ate Dolmah once in my life it worth every penny, so delicious, fatty and yummy 🤤
@@6rban100k Oh yeah ? Then you tried nothing!
Don't call it Dolmah until you try it in Iraq...
Anyway .. 3awafi ❤️
@@MortadhaClashermrmr992 I know! Every food is much better and tastier in its birthplace, for example you should eat Neapolitan pizza in Napoli city! Sushi in Japan.
So yeah I agree with you, inshallah one day I visit the great Iraq and try it from an old Iraqi women cuz they are always the best chefs lol.. Y3afik 💕
@@6rban100k Indeed they're 😍
You should come to my house then !
And you will find Dolma there waiting for you ..
You forgot to mention that Arabs translated the majority of the texts from Greek ancient philosophers and Latins took them from Arabs and established what we call today as western civilization and culture. As a Greek I want to thank Arabs for that!!! You saved a huge part of the Greek heritage which became a global heritage. Philosophy is the base of every sience.
Nah, mate enough with this myth. Greek have nothing to do with Western civilization. Western civilization is sparked by renaissance which started in Italy and progress to the North and West. Greeks were part of Ottoman at that time and have no contribution to the west civilization.
@@supermavro6072 thanks for making me LOL! Haha 😂 Happy new year! 😆
The Eastern Romans (Greeks) preserved ancient Roman and Greek texts during the Middle Ages too. You guys saved and preserved your own history (not to discredit Arabs though they didn't wonders with Greco-Roman knowledge and writings)
@@i_likemen5614 Romans aren't Greeks. Greeks have no contribution to the west. Westerners like to claim Greeks as part of their own, this mainly due to geopolitical interest. But Greek are close to Anatolia, middle eastern and North African groups. This is what out culture, religion, tradition and mentality shows.
@@supermavro6072 Greeks literally used to call themselves "Roman" before Greek Independence. You seem to forget that the Roman empire ruled the Middle East and North Africa. Hell, even the Ottomans sometimes considered themselves Romans. Levantines, Anatolians, and North Africans were all once Romans
The bad eye= صيبة العين
Is of phoenician origin, it can be found on a lot of phoenician gods sculptures especially tanit, in forms of necklace made of graved small stones in shapes of eyes...
Can you help me answering this question? Are Phoenicians Arabs or just semitic group of people?
@@6rban100k arabs are semitic so cousins
As a Greek, i feel the only close related countries to us are Cyprus,Italy (centre- south) and Lebanon.
Ελα (ela) can be used as let's go but it more accurately means come here
Let's see all the arguments one by one:
1) evil eye: exists in literraly 90% of Europe. But the video focuses on Greece? Noone knows why
2) split: exists in much of Eastern Europe
3) dances: syrtaki is not a traditional mainland Greek dance, its a dance for a movie peruposes. Greek dances are distinguished between circle dances (fine, they exost through all of Europe as well, just search for French an dro or faroese circle dances) and couple dances. Couple dances dont even exist among arabs, Meanwhile Greek tradition has no belly dance like dances
4) food, and specifically souvlaki: if you think that its an exclusively "Greek" thing, google arrosticini, pinchitos, churasco etc to see that much of Europe has similar dishes
5) arak/ouzo: they are not the same drink genius, and if you imply that they are both destilled with anise, google for french pastris, italian sabuca to name a few
6) alphabet: ok, i didnt know that Lebanon has phoenecian alphabet, as far as i know you use the ARABIC alphabet
7)ela: means come, and derives from ancient Greek elavno which means "I go", nothing to do with yalla
8) families: according to emmanuel todd, Greek family is nuclear, wiht no cousins marriage not allowed. Arabic family is community family with cousins marriage allowed. NOTHING ALIKE, in other words. Greeks also (like other Europeans) get married long older than Arabs, and give birth to fewer children.
I saw you under many comments take a chill bill
@@rozakhaled1035 i have to admit that i cant stand stupidity, and whenever a video refers to brawn people stupidity is dominant
@@jackie5918 you are really a joke lol
@@rozakhaled1035 thank God, not an Arabic one
@@jackie5918 maybe if you cry it will help 💕