North African Arabs

North African Arabs (Arabic: عرب شمال أفريقيا‎‎ "‘Arab Shamal Ifriqiya") or "Maghrebi Arabs" (Arabic: :العرب المغاربي‎‎ "al-‘Arab al-Magharbii") is a term that denotes the inhabitants of the North African Maghreb region whose native language is a dialect of Arabic, are descendant of Arabs and identify as Arab. This ethnic identity is a product of the Arab conquest of North Africa and the spread of Islam to Africa. The migration of Arab tribes to North Africa in the 11th century was a major factor in the linguistic and cultural Arabization of the Maghreb region, mainly Beni Hassan, Banu Hilal and Banu Sulaym. The offsprings of these Arabs created the North African Arab tribal groups who speak Arabic as a first language and have an Arab ethnic identity and moreover are representing nowadays the majority of the population in the countries in North Africa, which include Morocco, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Mauritania and Western Sahara..

The Shasu people were a Semitic-speaking group of nomads in the Levant from the late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age or Third Intermediate Period of Egypt. They were organized in clans under a tribal chieftain, and were described as brigands active from the Jezreel Valley to Ashkelon and Sinai. Herding and livestock of camels, cows and sheep comprised their main livelihood, but they also engaged in hunting and limited agriculture. They were hostile towards Egypt, and served as mercenaries in armies that waged war against the Egyptians. The Shasu people guided the soldiers of Assyrian ruler Esarhaddon into the Nile delta in the 7th century BC and provided his armies with camels for the transport of water.

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