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Creation of an Arab Nationalism

Khaled Fahmy, professor of history at the American University in Cairo, considers the development of the idea of Arab nationalism. He sets it against the collapsing Ottoman Empire - once a multi-ethnic, multi-racial, multi-linguistic empire stretching across Asia, Europe and north Africa - which was reduced to two ethnicities by the end of the 19th century, Turks and Arabs.

From Jordan - Rewriting the map of the Middle East, part of The War That Changed The World.

(Photo: Statue of Emir Faisal 1 bin Hussein bin Ali al-Hashimi, in a square named after him in Baghdad, Iraq. He was King of the Arab Kingdom of Syria or Greater Syria in 1920, and King of Iraq from 1921 to 1933.)

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