with the recent news regarding Syria many have wondered how come Assad and some of the resistance Fighters look so white being ethnically Alo white and Arab but here's why while Gulf Arabs are of predominantly two ancestral sources such as natufian Hunters who look like this and Iranian Neolithic farmers who look like this Le Arabs such as syrians derive only half of their ancestry from those two sources around 9% of their origin is tied to Caucasus Hunter gathers who look like this and 40% of their origin is tied to Neolithic Farmers from Anatolia who look like this these same Farmers from Anatolia also heavily populated Europe during the Neolithic and their ancestry is in all of Europeans particularly Southern Europeans as a result syrians share a large amount of their ancestry with many Europeans and these ancestral sources are even higher for alawites from whom Bashar Assad come