Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An idiom or a peculiarity of the Arabic language.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An Arabic idiom peculiarly of language.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
idiom characteristic of theArabic language .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The trouble with Pan-Arabism is that the countries that tried to make a go of it were never good fits.
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"Pan-Arabism" is one reason why the region's a sewer.
May 2004 2004
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Pan-Arabism translates into endorsement of murderous policies toward Muslim but non-Arab groups and accounts for Arab support for Saddam Hussein as he slaughtered
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] MasteRing 2009
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Pan-Arabism translates into endorsement of murderous policies toward Muslim but non-Arab groups and accounts for Arab support for Saddam Hussein as he slaughtered
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Pan-Arabism translates into endorsement of murderous policies toward Muslim but non-Arab groups and accounts for Arab support for Saddam Hussein as he slaughtered
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Pan-Arabism translates into endorsement of murderous policies toward Muslim but non-Arab groups and accounts for Arab support for Saddam Hussein as he slaughtered
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] MasteRing 2009
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Hezbullah, an Islamist group, has long been using the mixed language of Islam and Arabism, which is why some came up with a term: "Pan-Arabist Islam/ism" or "Arabo-centric Islam."
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... myth of Arabism, which is primarily concerened with community of race, it can be said perhaps of spiritual race ... (p. 148) But by the very fact that "spiritual racism" is so intimate a part of the motive force of Arabism in its extreme form, they do not find it easy to give Christian minorities their unreserved confidence.
Latest Articles 2010
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The central Sudanese government's imposition of "Arabism" and "Islamism" sharia law on the South Sudanese and rampant discrimination against them are said to be a sustaining cause of the civil war.
Alemayehu G. Mariam: Referendum for Sudan, Requiem for Africa Alemayehu G. Mariam 2011
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My only comment would be that I think that the Arab world needs more pluralism and openness to 'the other' -- as postmodernists like to say -- rather than an emphasis upon an essentialist 'Arabism' that would tend, by its emphasis upon Arab identity, to delegitimate non-Arabs living in majority-Arab countries.
Contagion of freedom? Or appeal of submission? Horace Jeffery Hodges 2005
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