Clarification: Those Are Ethnic Groups, Not "Non-Ethnic" Groups

The question asks for "non-ethnic groups in the Middle East" — but Armenians, Assyrians, Circassians, Georgians, and Jews are all ethnic groups (distinct peoples with shared ancestry, language, culture, and self-identification). There's no such category as "non-ethnic groups" in demographics.

What You Might Be Looking For

Religious Communities (Cross-Cutting Ethnicity)

• Christians: Copts (Egypt), Maronites (Lebanon), Assyrians/Chaldeans (Iraq/Syria), Armenians (region-wide)
• Muslims: Sunni, Shia, Alawite, Druze, Ismaili — spanning Arab, Kurdish, Turkmen, Persian, etc.
• Jews: Mizrahi, Sephardi, Ashkenazi — diverse ethnic origins, shared religion

National/Civic Identities (Supra-Ethnic)

• Citizenship-based: Israeli, Iranian, Turkish, Egyptian, Saudi — legal status transcending ethnicity
• Pan-movements: Arab nationalism, Pan-Turkism, Pan-Iranism — ideological affiliations

Social/Functional Groups

• Tribal/Confederations: Bedouin tribes (Anazzah, Shammar), Kurdish tribes — kinship-based but political
• Sectarian/Communal: Millet system (Ottoman) legacy — religious courts for personal status
• Professional/Class: Merchant families (Damascus, Aleppo, Baghdad), ulema (religious scholars), military elites

Minority Ethnic Groups (If That Was the Intent)

Beyond the five listed: Kurds (30-40M), Azeris, Turkmens, Baloch, Lurs, Mazandaranis, Gilaks, Talysh, Mandaeans, Yazidis, Zoroastrians, Dom (Roma-related), Afro-Arabs — dozens more.

The Middle East's diversity defies simple categorization. Ethnicity, religion, nationality, tribe, class, and ideology overlap in complex ways that resist binary "ethnic/non-ethnic" framing.