GEOG 002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Islamic Fundamentalism, Multinational State, Camp David Accords

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Geography (GEOG)
• Course: GEOG 002
• Professor: Howell

Document Summary

The rise of political islam (shifting identities in the arab world) key word of the day: identity. A nation is a group of people who: Have a territory they call their own. Pan- arab (ethnic national identity) ~ 400 million. Islam (religious national identity) ~ 1. 5 billion. Peoples and countries of the arab world constitute one nation and are bound together by common: Al- fatat (1911) meeting their mission is to raise the level of the arab nation to the level of modern nations . British and french made secret deal to divide the arabs into colonies (which the arabs thought they were gonna get sovereignty/independence) Four factors leading to the decline of pan- arabism and the rise of political. 1949 u. n. partition plan jews influx to palistine. Palistine goes to war with jews but loose (and lose a lot of land) New line drawn with jews controlling most of palistine.