The Arabs Were Among the Inhabitants of Alexandria in Ancient Times
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Dio Chrysostom from the first century AD spoke about the peoples residing in Alexandria, and those peoples were: the Greeks, the Italians, the Libyans, the Cilicians, the Arabs, the Ethiopians, the Scythians, the Persians, the Indians
This indicates an Arab presence in Alexandria before Islam, at a time when Alexandria was forbidden to Egyptians, Alexandria was a city inhabited by various races, especially the Greeks, Arabs, Persians, and Romans
[ Dio Chrysostom of Prusa, Oration 32.40 / Dio Chrysostom vol 3 p211 , Harvard ]
