The Making of the Modern Arab World - Egyptian author Tarek Osman traces characters and ideas that have shaped the modern Arab world in 4 episodes
__Episode 1: The rise and fall of of Arab Liberalism.
__Episode 2: The rise and fall of Arab nationalism.
__Episode 3: The rise of Islamism from the 1970s to the 1990s.
__Episode 4: The build up to the Arab Spring, as two worlds collide.
Dec 2013:- BBC Radio 4 @ [ Ссылка ]

0:17:08 - Suez Canal opened in 1869
0:20:45 - World War I ends in 1918
0:25:39 - Egyptian Constitution of 1923
0:27:28 - Syrian National Bloc party founded in 1928
0:31:44 - Episode 2: The rise of Arab nationalism
0:37:50 - Liberalism marginalized after the Al-Nakba of 1948
0:43:48 - Rift between Islamicists and the Free Officers Movement of Egypt in 1953
0:52:23 - Nasser promotes social reform via the concept of Al-Watan Al-Akbar (The Greater Nation)
0:58:24 - Arab nationalism
1:04:04 - Syria leaves the United Arab Republic in 1961
1:08:44 - Nasser Dies in 1970

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1830 Rifa'a al-Tahtawi @ [ Ссылка ]
1890 Muhammad Abduh @ [ Ссылка ]
1928 Hassan al-Banna @ [ Ссылка ]
1928 National Bloc (Syrian political party) @[ Ссылка ]
1947 Michel Aflaq @ [ Ссылка ]
1953 Gamal Abdel Nasser @ [ Ссылка ]

Al-Nahda @ [ Ссылка ]
arabic for "awakening" or "renaissance", Al-Nahda was a cultural renaissance that began in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Egypt, then later moving to Ottoman-ruled Arabic-speaking regions including Lebanon, Syria and others. It is often regarded as a period of intellectual modernization and reform.

Al-Nakba @ [ Ссылка ]
arabic for "disaster", "catastrophe", or "cataclysm", Al-Nakba occurred when more than 700,000 Palestinian were expelled from their homes, during the 1948 Palestine war.

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