Arab nationalism: mistaken identity. (past and current geo-political, social and economic influences that refute the notion of Arab national unity) (Daedalus Issue: Reconstructing Nations and States; includes bibliography) From: Daedalus | Date: June 22, 1993| Author: Kramer, Martin | COPYRIGHT 1993 American Academy of Arts and Sciences. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

THREE LINES OF POETRY PLOT THE TRAJECTORY of Arab national consciousness. "Awake, O Arabs, and arise!" begins the famous ode of Ibrahim al-Yaziji, penned in 1868 in Lebanon.(1) George Antonius deployed the line as the epigraph of his influential book, The Arab Awakening,(2) as the first utterance of a nascent Arab desire for independence from Ottoman rule. "Write down, I am an Arab!" begins the poem of resistance by the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, written in 1963 to assert an...