Pan Arabism Research Paper

Nydell, Margaret K. (. K. Understanding Arabs: A Guide for Modern Times. Intercultural Press, Yarmouth, ME, 2006.

Arab individuals are one of the fastest growing populations within the world. Many Arab people are Muslim: followed by the religion of Islam. According to Al-Krenawi (2000), “Ethnic Arab societies are highly diverse and consist of heterogeneous systems of social differentiation based on ethnic, linguistic, sectarian, familial, tribal, regional, socioeconomic, and national identities” (pg 10). The dynamic of Arab families

Throughout Middle Eastern history there have been many great empires but two stand out, the Ottoman Empire and the Qajar Kingdom; both have had long-lasting effects on what the Middle East looks like today. When looking at the Islamic Republic today and their form of government it is important to understand how they reached this level through examining their history and the lingering effects that WWI and Western Imperialism have left behind. The Ottoman Empire which stretched as far as modern-day Austria were a great military power but just like the Qajars were brought down by a combination of force and economic troubles. In order to understand the modern Middle East, we must be able to understand its history and what brought down both the Ottoman Empire and the Qajar Dynasty.

The self negotiation and internal struggle of the film’s character Malik Djebena is crucial in the course of sociological theoretical angle of symbolic interaction. Throughout the film, Malik’s personality revealed the bigger ongoing negotiations of Arab Muslim culture and identity within the French society. The largest Muslim Arab community in all of Western Europe resides in the heart of France, constituting five to six million people. Around 65% of this community traces its roots to French colonized countries of Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco and other parts of North Africa. Malik was coined the nickname “The Arab” and “haloof” (which means pig in Arabic) by other inmates which causes high probability that Malik is in fact to be of North African descent. Therefore, the symbolism of Malik’s muddled persona is more or less clear: in the same way that Malik has to come face to face with his own Muslim identity as he faces the iron fist of French prison, ethnic discrimination from the Corsicans, and the resentment and disapproval from his Muslim brothers. Many Muslim Arabs in France today have come to terms with their own identity issues as they face the pretentiously tolerant but merely assimilative French state, the increasing xenophobia

The Middle East is far from monumental and homogenous. Its differences have been a source of both strength and inspiration. The most visible, most pervasive, and the least recognized aspects of

The focus of ethnicity and ethnic issues in the Middle East has been associated with the Arabs in the Palestine and the Jews in Israel. Research carried in the previous researches confirmed that these issues are directly or indirectly affected by the political disputes. In a sample of the students who were involved in the research, 46.9% ranked the religion to be the major factor of the formation of the identity. Some students said that the term Israel was not the appropriate identity and a section about 50% said that Palestine was the right identity. When given six ways of characterising the identities, that is the Arab, Israeli, Israeli Arab, Palestinian Arab, Israeli Palestinian, and Palestinian. Palestinian Arab received the more endorsement by around 34%, followed by the Israeli Arab by 30%, Arab followed by approximately 20%, then Israeli Palestinian by 11.7% and Palestinian 4% the remaining 2.9% characterised themselves as Israelis. The implications of these data are discussed in this work.

The PFLP is Fatah’s primary rival within the PLO and claims to offer a fundamentally different ideological and organizational approach in achieving Palestinian goals. Founded in late 1967, the PFLP has its roots in the Arab Nationalist Movement (ANM) and in the political styles of its own principle founders, George Habash and Wadi Haddad—both from Greek Orthodox Christian backgrounds. The Arab Nationalist Movement particularly attracted to Christians, who saw a secular ideology based on Arab unity as a way to equalize their status in a predominately-Muslim world and to shape out a special niche for themselves within the Palestinian resistance movement.

Due to the ever increasing pressures of the surrounding world, the Arab and Persian worlds were disrupted through the processes of modernization. The reasons for these changes were not always for the Westernization of the state but rather for the adoption of selected European innovations, however, judicial practices and environmental interactions during this era of transformation were thoroughly disrupted in what was a disorienting and tumultuous experience for the people of the Middle East. The continuous changes caused by modernity brought about a cultural renaissance that would see the people of the Middle East searching for a path free of future interference with a united identity.

Arab unity, Lewis demonstrates, is now an oxymoron. Today no single Muslim polity exists, and this is part of the problem, or identity crisis, which the Islamic world faces. For many centuries there was one Islamic community united by one ruler. Even when that community splintered into various states, there was still a discernable unified state. No longer however. It is this divided and unstructured body that now is seeking to find its way in the modern world. Resentment, disorientation and despair have been part of the reaction and the rise of terrorism is one of the more pronounced responses to this loss of unity and hegemony. The loss of a coherent center in Islam, and its fall as a global power, is at the heart of the current crisis in Islam. Of course Islam is more than just a religion, it is a culture and civilization as well. For millennia it enjoyed the status as a world power. But the past century has witnessed a great reversal of fortune for this empire, and the responses have been

Arguments for against Zionism are many: the unfairness of land reauthorization by government, forced deportation of Palestinians, Palestinians’ conflicts of interest, and prosecuted racism. The relationship between Zionists and Arabians, in particular, is more and more adversarial due to the Arabian’s belief of Zionist’s responsible for the Palestinian exile taken place in

My first experience learning about the Middle East was last summer when I enrolled in a summer class on Modern African History. The class was taught by Dr. Anyanwu through Blackboard. It was mostly independent readings and Discussion Boards with a couple research papers. It was during that class, I realized how many people were unaware that Egypt was a part of Africa. Then, while actually learning about the Middle East in your class, the question came up a lot more.

European colonizers fully expected their rules in the Middle East and Africa to extend for the rest of the twentieth-century; however, events leading up to World War II set off forces that helped to transition the Arab and African nationalist challenges to colonial rule and brought about the movement toward freedom presently and much sooner than anticipated. This paper will look to examine two particular regions – the Middle East and Africa and the decolonization efforts that have occurred well into the last decades of the twentieth century and continue to make headlines in the twenty-first century today. Moreover, discussed within is the impact of the Cold War and its aftermath with an increasing threat of terrorism which have signaled worldwide reconfigurations of global economies, governments, allegiances, and identity policies abroad.

This essay will seek to examine the role Identity Politics played in the conflict between Zionism and its Arab neighbors in the Middle East. At the core of Identity Politics, Nationalism is one of the driving forces. The theoretical framework of the concept ‘Nationalism’ is multifaceted and has been ardently debated by scholars. For the sake of brevity and context for this essay, we’ll examine

Middle East considers one of the most studied areas in the world due to its rich history of politics, social, economic, and its culture and civilization. Its borders are still arguable geographically, generally in the west it starts from morocco until Iran in the east, however, many scholars don’t agree on including Turkey either as a Middle Eastern or as a European country (Milton-Edwards, 2006. P: 4). The origin of the name was invented by the colonies as a necessity to describe the place geographically, which was the era of bringing “Middle East” the language of academic writings and political scientists. Changes, innovations, and new ideologies create gaps between the transformations of any perspectives to a different

One of the most powerful concepts shaping the modern world is the concept of globalization. This concept is complex and requires the creating of new ideologies involving economic, political and socio-cultural orders. With the dominance of Western powers and the rapidly advancing technologies of the communication and information technology sectors, many Arab countries fear the loss of their traditions and national identity. This fear has propelled the world into conflict (Neyestani & McInturff, 2006).