Creation of an Arab Nationalism

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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.) (Credit: Wikipedia: Public Domain)