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- noun The quality of being
Arab .
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Examples
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The interplay of these two ideas - the idea of Arabness and the harnessing of it for political ends in Arab nationalism - has been one of the defining characteristics of the past two hundred years in the Arab world.
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The first is what might be called Arabness, a more cultural idea of identity, rooted in notions of ethnicity, language and common history, but with less political overtones.
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While the idea of Arabness has a long history, the political component of the idea, that Arabs are a people whose political destiny lies together, as expressed in Arab nationalism, is more recent.
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My belief that I was an Arab, racially superior to non-Arab Africans, became laughable in the heartland of Arabia - a place where "Arabness" was not only determined by skin colour but by whether you could uninterruptedly trace your lineage back to the founding father of your clan.
Monday, March 31, 2008 As'ad 2008
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Even though I have no problem with the way people construct narratives of their own identities, I was quite surprised and shaken by this young man's absolute disidentification with his "Arabness" (and to a lesser extent, "Palestinianness") and wondered whether he would really be identified as such by mainstream America.
CounterPunch 2010
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So clearly, the "Arabness" of Lebanon is clearly "vague" and you also have a vibrant Armenian Christian community in this nation.
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So clearly, the "Arabness" of Lebanon is clearly "vague" and you also have a vibrant Armenian Christian community in this nation.
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With the collapse of Arab Jewish culture in the wake of Zionism, the Arabness of Jews has become a complex issue that is often tied to the demand that Arab Jews reject their traditional culture and assimilate what is considered a generic Jewish identity, an identity that is Ashkenazi in orientation.
David Shasha: The Voice of Um Kulthum: A Place to Start the Dialogue 2010
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With the collapse of Arab Jewish culture in the wake of Zionism, the Arabness of Jews has become a complex issue that is often tied to the demand that Arab Jews reject their traditional culture and assimilate what is considered a generic Jewish identity, an identity that is Ashkenazi in orientation.
David Shasha: The Voice of Um Kulthum: A Place to Start the Dialogue 2010
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But I know of no Zionists who speak out against anti-Arabness or anti-Islam.
Saturday, May 31, 2008 As'ad 2008
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