Decolonization produced many new independent Arab states between 1948 and 1967.

Evidence

The Arab military defeat in 1948 and the humiliation resulting from it ushered in a new phase which continued until the third Arab-Israeli War in 1967. The main feature of this period was the growth and development of a whole series of independent Arab states. To the original group in the Middle East many others were added, as the former British and French dependencies and possessions in Asia and Africa, one after another, gained political sovereignty. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 906

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The apartheid government won office narrowly in 1948 despite decolonization sweeping Africa; The Arab states’ names and borders reveal their colonial, artificial origins; Post-Ottoman mandatory powers shaped Arab states in their own institutional image — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 867 (+6 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The apartheid government won office narrowly in 1948 despite decolonization sweeping Africa; The Arab states’ names and borders reveal their colonial, artificial origins; Post-Ottoman mandatory powers shaped Arab states in their own institutional image — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 867 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Formal independence from Britain masked continued imperial control of Arab states #complicates (0.84) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 309