What is the history of the many light haired/eyed people

>>3317258
That's henna tho

Race is a meme and there is no tidy dividing line between white Europeans and brown Arabs.
The history of these people is the history of wherever they are from as they are not a discrete population.

>>3317258
>>3317267
muhammad was ginger
thats where tradition of henna comes from
also quran describes him as white

>>3317258
Because semites and indoeuropeans mixed with eachother for thousands of years.
Light hair and eyes are even more common is the maghreb, especially among tribes who didn't blacked themselves with slavery.

Tribes who had very little contact with outsiders.

See Kalash. Up until recently they were distinct from neighbours/wider region.

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>>3317258
King David was a red-head. Lots of Samaritans (closest thing he have to ancient Israelites today) have red-hair

>>3317258
When armies pass through an area, they tend to do a lot of raping and whoring. Likewise, when a region is annexed into one empire or another population displacement and transfers tend to occur. Cue tons of babies with different features from having a British, Russian, Italian, etc father, and with that a small sprinkling of people with random hair and eye color combinations that are otherwise rare. Because the Middle East is strategically located and has historically been a nexus of international trade and travel, you get even more diversity of ancestry.

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>>3317278
Henna is as old as Ancient Egypt m8

This is where the "ginger mummy" meme comes from (and hair follicle discoloration)

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>>3317258
It's much more common we usually think. Varies by region, of course.

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Not the middle east, but I see a lot of North African women with this fiery red type of hair.
pic related is the queen of Morocco.

>>3317298
>>3318368
They look so similar they could be sisters

>>3317258
Large portions of Alexander's army settled throughout central Asia and dicked the locals for centuries.

>>3317298
is that why kyle from south park is ginger and a jew?

>>3317820
This guy is Afghan? Holy shit they're practically Nordic looking

>>3317298
Umm... no sweetie. Palestinians are the closest thing we have, ancient israelites were POC, not white people. They would have gotten burnt in the sun, the sun hates white people.

Looks like Nikolaj Waldeau

>>3317820
>>3318770
oops

>>3318748
Surely you're trolling.

>>3317258

A lot of them are descendants of slaves. The Arabs took over 3 million Europeans as slaves over the centuries, some of them from as far away as Ireland.

>>3317258
the arab slave trade, the men where castrated and women taken as sex slaves. and the aryan invasion. if they went to india with languages that have similar themes to caucus languages then they went to the ME first

>>3318781
This. Keep in mind a lot of "Turks" and "Arabs" are literally just Greeks and Romans forced to convert and assimilate

>>3318753
No Palestinians are not. Yazidi are. And even then they have been tainted by Arabs

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Chances are dark hair and eyes are where the tendency leans towards and Arabs aren't the ones responsible for bringing those features to the ME. The Jews aren't some isolate group either.
The abnormal traits could come from all sorts of places or be a remnant of a period before the Afro-Asiatic expansion.
>Cambridge linguist and anthropologist Roger Blench sees the Solubba as the last survivors of Palaeolithic hunters and salt-traders who once dominated Arabia. Those were assimilated in the next wave of humans consisted of cattle herders in the 6th millennium BCE who introduced cows, wild donkeys, sheep and dogs, wild camels and goats. Those peoples may have engaged in trade across the Red Sea with speakers of Cushitic or Nilo-Saharan. In the 3rd and 2nd millennium BCE speakers of Semitic languages arrived from the Near East and marginalised and absorbed the rest.
>The Huteimi are described by James Wellsted to be "sharpened ... their eyes seated deeply in their head" with pronounced chins. He also observed that the Huteimi's hair was "permitted to grow to some length ... which is a "black to light red color".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Islamic_Arabia#Solluba
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huteimi

>>3318851
Yazidis are Iranic.

>>3318728
But Greeks arent really fair-featured themselves

>>3317258

some of the spaniards raped back

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A shitload of Chechens are ginger too, although I'm not sure whether they are technically Middle Eastern or not.

>>3318928
Macedonian Greeks probably had the highest amount of fair features. They were right next to Thrace.

>>3319000
Could be where the Neolithic populations and Bronze Age Mesopotamians came from.
The earliest period traceable to the Mesopotamian peoples is the Halaf culture which is located in southeastern Turkey. There's also been speculation over the possibility of a migration from Mesapotamia to the Caucasus. Caucasian languages and Sumerian are also both agglutinative and have similar noun class distinction. J and G are also prevalent in the Caucasus region.