The Arab Belt (Arabic: الحزام العربي‎, al-hizām al-ʿarabī; Kurdish: Kembera Erebî, که‌مبه‌را عه‌ره‌بی‎) was the Syrian Baath government's project of Arabization of the north of the Al-Hasakah Governorate to change its ethnic composition of the population in favor of Arabs to the detriment of other ethnic groups, particularly Kurds. It involved the seizure of land which was then settled with Arabs displaced by the creation of Lake Assad.