Youssef Cherif — Neo-pan-Arabism: a renewed contract of legitimacy in the Maghreb
29 published claims from this book.
- Algeria is a major non-epicenter node of pan-Arabism.
- Algeria’s anti-Israel confrontation is a media construct for domestic consumption
- Algeria’s brief liberal opening collapsed under deep-state repression after Covid.
- Algiers brokered Palestinian faction reconciliation talks with limited effect.
- Arab political solidarity dissolved once cold war patrons and external enemies receded.
- Arab regimes risked their legitimacy by failing their own pan-Arab rhetoric.
- Arab regimes sustain solidarity chiefly through ideological dialogue, not arms or trade
- Arab regimes weaponize pan-Arab slogans against internal grassroots uprisings.
- Arabs hold deeper Arab identification than democratic or global-citizen identity even when outwardly Westernized
- Contemporary pan-Arab rhetoric is performative statecraft, not an actual union project.
- Hosting Palestinian factions projected Algerian leadership onto the Arab center stage.
- Neo-nationalist backlash against imposed Western models recurs across post-authoritarian spaces.
- Neo-pan-Arabism sustains regime legitimacy rather than pursuing Arab unity.
- Opposition within Arab states is reframed as treason to the pan-Arab cause
- Palestinian solidarity weakened as Arab suffering became widespread and universal.
- Pan-Arab and anti-Israel rhetoric decided a modern Tunisian presidential election.
- Pan-Arab movements produced autocratic leaders despite democratic rhetoric
- Pan-Arab political culture predates and outlasts colonial and state boundaries
- Pan-Arab solidarity required Israel as an external enemy after the imperialist threat receded
- Pan-Arabism functions as elite legitimation rhetoric, not primordial identity.
- Pan-Islamism replaced pan-Arabism as the leading anti-imperialist force.
- Post-Uprisings Western intervention aimed to replace pan-Arab ideology with neoliberal liberal democracy.
- Pro-Palestinian activism in Tunisia is performative and untested by official action
- Public mockery of Gaddafi’s death signaled the decline of Arab nationalist mystique.
- Regimes branded grassroots uprisings as external anti-Arab conspiracies.
- Renewed pan-Arab rhetoric principally legitimizes existing authoritarian regimes.
- Reports of pan-Arabism’s death are recurrent but so far premature
- Saied frames Arab division and cultural weakness as Western-plotted conspiracies.
- Tunisian state identity was built in opposition to pan-Arabism yet never fully abandoned it.