The army put paid to all this in 2013, and now the square resembles a military man’s idea of public space. It has been smartened up, with fresh paint on the buildings, well-kept grass and the central roundabout anchored by an obelisk—and also cleared of people. Guards shoo away anyone who lingers too long.
Before Islam came, the Arabs were, simply, Arabic-speaking nomads of the Arabian peninsula and Mesopotamian desert. The conquests of Islamic caliphates then spread their tongue and faith as far afield as modern-day Spain and Pakistan. But the last caliphate fell to the Ottomans in the 16th century, ushering in a 400-year period when most Arabs were ruled by outsiders.
What followed was a decades-long effort to create an expansive, transnational Arab identity. Arab nationalism would become the region’s ascendant ideology. Its main competitor, Islamism, found its own pan-Arab manifestation in the Muslim Brotherhood. The Arab League was meant to integrate the region and safeguard states’ independence. The conflict with Israel became a touchstone: a joint military struggle for some, an ideological cause for all.
This special report is about the regional order that has emerged from the past decade. It has three distinct characteristics. First is the external weakness of many Arab states: the most powerful countries in the Middle East are all non-Arab. Second is their internal brittleness. Bulging young populations and unproductive economies are existential threats that often call for harsh repression. Apart from the Gulf countries, the Arab world is a string of failed and failing states.
wow
Because, 70% of peuple in ( arabe world ) aren't arabes. Its seems like an arabe occupation
What does it mean to be British? A country that speaks about the ' four nations'? Might struggle too.
Damn paywall..
horrible
Millennial Arabs Are So Confused About Their Identities, They're Changing The Way They Dismember Dissident Journalists!
It means flexing nuts and making bank while pretending to be religious.
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I'll take nationalism over religious extremism, any day.
Shocking beyond imagination! 400 men groping,beating & tearing cloth of 1 tiktoker girl in MinarePakistan Girl screaming for help.. Azaan going on in the background These Vultures are no less than Talibanis This is Naya Pakistan..Shameful 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
Arab nations know their days of oil sales are numbered as under UN Agenda 21 the aim is net 0 carbon neutrality by 2030 and absolute 0 carbon emissions by 2050. As compact smart technologies replace bulky industrial layouts & with knowledge on a cusp they need to reinvent or fade
Israel is on par with the West in losing its religious anchor as secular-liberal-atheist values swamp the Jewish majority nation and a growing population of highly educated citizens identify with a drive to excel in advanced technologies namely CS, agrotech and water management.
Better for the world that they do that than coalesce around islamism.
Religious identity is losing its grip on the Arab nations. Education, affluence, travel and internet are crushing dogmas. The common prop is increasingly cultural in terms of language, food, diet and dress and a united aspiration to stay relevant in the cutting edge 21st century.
There is a perceptible scramble among the oil Sheikhs to find something to replace oil with in their lives as the oil runs out and so does the demand for this toxic fossil fuel
It may be the ideology of self interest...
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