Mashriq (disambiguation)

Mashriq is a name of the cultural and geographical region in the eastern part of the Arab world, split between westernmost Western Asia and easternmost North Africa. This area comprises the modern Arab states of Bahrain, Egypt, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Yemen, Oman, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine and Iraq. The four cultural regions within Mashriq are Arabia, Nile Valley, Levant and the Persian Gulf (Arabian Gulf).

Mashriq or Mashreq or Mashrek (Arabic: مشرق) and francicized Machrek or Machriq, depending on the dialect, 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").

The term may also refer to:

Mashriq
  • Al-Machriq (The East), a journal founded in 1898 by Jesuit and Chaldean priest Louis Cheikhô, published by Jesuit fathers of Saint Joseph University in Beirut, Lebanon
  • Al-Mashriq, Iraqi daily newspaper
  • Mashriq (daily) (Urdu: روزنامہ مشرق‎), daily newspaper in Pakistan
  • Daily Mashriq Evening Special, first Urdu daily evening newspaper in Pakistan
  • Mashriq TV, British-Pakistani television channel
  • Mashriqu'l-Adhkar, Bahá'í House of Worship ("Dawning-place of the remembrances of God")
  • Mashriq wahy (Arabic: مشرق وحيه‎, 1817–1892), name for Bahá'u'lláh

Mashreq
  • Mashreq (bank), the oldest privately owned bank in the United Arab Emirates founded as the Bank of Oman in 1967
  • Mashreq University, a private university located in Khartoum North in Sudan

Mashrek
  • Bank Al Mashrek, defunct bank in Lebanon under CEO Roger Tamraz
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See also
  • Levant, an approximate historical geographical term referring to a large area in the Eastern Mediterranean region of Western Asia. In its narrowest sense, it is equivalent to the historical region of Syria, which included present-day Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel and Palestine
  • Middle East, in its narrower sense includes the Mashriq countries
  • Maghreb, the Arab World west of Egypt, that includes Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia
  • Mashriqi Arabic or Eastern Arabic, or Mashriqi ʿAmmiya, encompasses the varieties of Arabic spoken in the Mashriq. Refer also to Varieties of Arabic
  • Mashriqiyyun, the "Easterners", alternative name for Mizrahi Jews
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