The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party (ص 133)

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The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party (ص 133)

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Chapter 5
THE IDEOLOGY OF THE ARAB
NATIONALISTS MOVEMENT
Having traced the historical background of the Arab
national movement in the first chapter, the author begins
here by outlining the context within which an ideology was
searched for in the Arab World so as to appreciate the ANM's
contribution to this quest.
The first characteristic feature of that context was
the search for a national identity. In the late 'forties,
an average citizen of Egypt had several identities. He was
considered a 'native' by the British, an Arab by the Israelis.
At the Mosque, he was taken as a Muslim but by the ruling
class he was treated as one of the faceless masses. Again,
by geography, he was an African. What was true of the
average Egyptian was equally true of the man-in-the-street
in the other Arab states. He too had several identities,
not necessarily the same as that of his brother Egyptian.
Since the last century, the intellectual activities
which were interested in emphasizing one or the other of the
above identities or in striking a balance between them, were
mainly gaverned by Western influence. This influence had
manifested itself in two peculiar ways. On the one hand,
the national resentment against the colonial West was working
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The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party

تاريخ

1971-02-07

المنشئ

Basil R. Al-Kubaisi

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