The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party (ص 151)

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The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party (ص 151)

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Chapter 6
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION
The ANM was one of the streams of the Arab national
movement whose initial aim was national unification and inde-
pendence. Its establishment in the early 'fifties, represented
the rejuvenation o£ the ideals and concepts of an earlier
generation. In the manner of the older and now defunct
Group of Arab Nationalists, whose activities between the two
World Wars spread in all parts of the Fertile Crescent, the
ANM gave clear priority to the issue of national unification
over all other issues. The creation of a unified Arab state
was looked upon, by the founders of the ANM, as the cardinal
objective that would lead to the liberation of the usurped
Arab lands and to the establishment of a better life for
future generations.
The ANM grew out of Dr. Constantine Zurayk's study
groups at the American University of Beirut. There its
founding leaders were imbued with the abstract thought of
the early school of Arab Nationalists. Hence, they paid only
little attention to specific social and economic problems at
this early stage.
The character.of the early ANM was akin to the German
university student groups who, 4 century earlier, had fought
under the banners of union and freedom. In fact the Arab
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The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party

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1971-02-07

المنشئ

Basil R. Al-Kubaisi

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