ARABIC 241

The Arab World

Social and Political Integration

What is Pan–Arabism?

Gamal Abdel Nasser laid the foundations

for both Pan-Arabism and Pan-Africanism. 1. He denounced the United Nations and the West for complicity in the displacement of the Palestinians from their homeland.

2. He was a dynamic secular figure who challenged the West by "nationalizing" the Suez Canal.

3. He united Egypt and Syria (the UAR, United Arab Republic)

4. Nasser supported Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco when they denounced French colonialism.Nasser And Ahmed Ben Bella (Algeria) linked the destiny of the Arab in north Africa and The Africans south of the Sahara through Pan-Africanism.

What causes Arab fragmentation? Self interest of rulers. Dependency. Colonization.

What are the conditions to achieve unity?

1. Historical roots:

centuries of unification under Islamic Empire.

2. unique cultural and linguistic homogeneity

- Common language

- Shared culture

3.Common identity.

4. Common Cause.

- Palestine

5.Common interests

What is the danger of the mosaic society?

- Alawite, Druze

- Barbers

- Kurds

How does the West benefit from Arab fragmentation?

- Create dependency:

Rulers, Conflicts…

What Arab governments should do to achieve unity?

Secularism Democracy Social Justice Individual freedom Unity

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Pan-Islam" Dr. Mohammed Natsir, former prime minister

of Indonesia and at the time head of Indonesia's largest political party, Masjumi, was a leading proponent of a theocratic Muslim state and what he called "Pan-Islam." His conception of "Pan-Islam" was that it would make communism obsolete because it would be "socialist in nature." While it would be internationalist, "Pan-Islam" would be non-aligned and neither communist nor capitalist. He also predicted that the West would collaborate with what the media now calls Muslim "fundamentalists" as a lesser evil against communism