FOOD
This chickpea dip is Arab breakfast staple
Hummus
Lebanese-Colombian singer whose hips famously don't lie
Shakira
Capital of Egypt
Cairo
The universal Arab parent weapon, removed from the foot and deployed at speed
The shibshib / slipper
Ancient Egyptian structures at Giza, one of the original Seven Wonders
The Pyramids
A salad of bulgur, parsley, tomato and parsley is the main ingredient, not bulgur
Tabbouleh
Egyptian-American who won a Golden Globe and starred in Mr. Robot
Rami Malek
The world's tallest building, and the city it's in
Dubai
The three acceptable careers, according to every Arab parent
Doctor, engineer, lawyer
Moroccan explorer who traveled further than Marco Polo in the 1300s
Ibn Battuta
Sweet cheese pastry in shredded pastry, Nablus's most famous export
Knafeh
Lebanese singer called "the Ambassador to the Stars," a living legend
This body of water is the lowest point on Earth's surface
Dead Sea
What hangs from the rearview mirror of a car
Evil Eye
Nabataean civilization built this city, now Jordan's most visited site
Petra
This dish layers meat and yogurt sauce over bread and rice
Mansaf
Egyptian singer known as "the Star of the East," died 1975
Umm Kulthum
Number of countries in the Arab League
22
The container that never holds what the label says
The Nescafé jar, or butter tub
Physician whose Canon of Medicine was used in European universities for 600 years
Ibn Sina
A leafy green soup made from jute mallow, with a distinctly slimy texture
Molokhia
Palestinian poet who wrote "Identity Card" and "In the Presence of Absence" (Mahmoud Darwish)
Mahmoud Darwish
The Arab world's largest country by area since 2011
Algeria
The word your non-Arab friends learned first and overused
Yalla, or habibi
Persian-Arab mathematician whose name gave us "algorithm"
Al-Khwarizmi