This article focuses upon the Armenian diasporan experience in the Arab world after the First World War. It discusses the formation of Armenian communities in the Fertile Crescent and Egypt in the early 1920s and the strategy that they have since pursued to preserve their distinct ethnic identity within the quasi-millet system that is still applied in these countries. The article also analyzes how political and economic instability in the Arab world has affected the local Armenian communities and discusses the challenges that the latter face today, especially in light of the re-emergence of the Republic of Armenia as a sovereign and independent state in 1991.