Is Judal Asian or Middle Eastern?

He is named after the eponymous hero of The Tale of Judar and His Brethren from One Thousand and One Nights.

One Thousand and One Nights (Arabic: كِتَاب أَلْف لَيْلَة وَلَيْلَة‎‎ kitāb ʾalf layla wa-layla) is a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as the Arabian Nights, from the first English-language edition (1706), which rendered the title as The Arabian Nights' Entertainment.[1]

PollyObscurum said:
So, Judal is apparently born in a village of Far East, but he also wears Middle Eastern clothing. But at the same time he seems like he is Middle Eastern himself somehow.

What if he and his family was actually a Middle Eastern family living in the Far East? I really don't know why do I have this sensation that he is Middle Eastern. :o

And yes, I know that Middle Eastern people are considered Asian as well, but what I meant with Asian was like Far Eastern.