Arab Identity Crisis – Burning Issues

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The Observation

The term Arab is connected to linguistic and political flavor inherent in the genealogical consideration in Middle eastern countries.
In Arab states, Standard Arabic is used by the government. There is no globally accepted definition of the Arab world but in general all the countries that are members of the “Arab League” are generally acknowledged as being part of the Arab world.
The Arab league represents vast region of up to 22 countries and more than 400m people from Northern Africa, Western Africa, Eastern Africa, and Western Asia.

The Arab world identifies itself on the basis of “qawmiyya” and “wataniyya”.
However, today it is going through “serious identity crisis” due to
1. Weakened Arab leadership
2. Internal brittleness
3. Self-interested nationalism