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Eliot Wilson's avatar

One famous Druze? Good God, man, Casey Kasem, literally the voice of Shaggy in Scooby-Doo!

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Andrew Cusack's avatar

Pah!

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Eliot Wilson's avatar

Amal Clooney’s father is Druze as well, I believe.

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Jon Kohan's avatar

"Ethnically, they are Arab, and migrated to the Lebanese mountains and Jabal al-Druze from south Arabia before the advent of Islam." This is false. They are almost entirely Levantine. I am very closely related to them and I am a Persian Jew.

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Al Mustafa's avatar

According to Makram Rabah, Lebanese Druze writer in his book “ conflict on Mount Lebanon” the Druze claim descent from a multitude of named Arabian tribes from north and south of the peninsula.

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Drudgemetal's avatar

In some circles, far-left journalist Rania Khalek is quite famous as well

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