Quote Originally Posted by DaveFishnomer View Post
Turky is in the middle east, I know they are technically not Arab, just like Iran, but they always had a large population of Arab people and in the Arab world they are considered by many as Arab, in any case, the pictures you show are ancient arabic style, like really really old, so old you could say they are not even Arab but of civilizations that no longer exist.

Some Arab lands take their building inspiration from ottoman's
but
As history books and historian mentioned Arabs lives like this for the past 3000 years (there are exceptions ofc not all arab like rich people have sand castles and stuff)
and Arabs used to live like this, it is even less than 150 years from now,
Now Arab lands are more civilized with huge buildings and bunch of oil