{"title":"Perceived Threats and Perceived Loyalties","authors":"Ghassane Salame","doi":"10.1201/9781003070641-15","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"When Amin al-Rihani, the Lebanese-born American traveller, arrived in Riyadh, the tiny capital of an emerging kingdom which was not yet named Saudi Arabia, he was bringing with him an ambitious project for Arab unity. In a mixture of the flamboyant romanticism of the Lebanese mountains and admiration for the United States of America, he wanted to know what his host thought of a unified Arab state (probably restricted to Asia). The king’s reaction was irritated but clear: ‘What Arab unity? We are the Arabs.’","PeriodicalId":35461,"journal":{"name":"Arab World Geographer","volume":"56 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Arab World Geographer","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003070641-15","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"Social Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
When Amin al-Rihani, the Lebanese-born American traveller, arrived in Riyadh, the tiny capital of an emerging kingdom which was not yet named Saudi Arabia, he was bringing with him an ambitious project for Arab unity. In a mixture of the flamboyant romanticism of the Lebanese mountains and admiration for the United States of America, he wanted to know what his host thought of a unified Arab state (probably restricted to Asia). The king’s reaction was irritated but clear: ‘What Arab unity? We are the Arabs.’
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The AWG is an international peer-review professional journal devoted to advancing geographical knowledge pertaining principally (though not exclusively) to the Arab World. It is integrative in approach, and especially oriented towards the relevance of applied research to policy. It provides for rapid publication of original research papers, reports, and reviews dealing with all aspects of the human environment in the lands of the Arab World as interpreted by human and physical geographers. The AWG seeks to disseminate the work of the new generation of Arab geographers to the wider international geographic and scholarly community through the medium of global English.