StudiesonnationalismintheArabWorldhavedealtwiththesocio-economicconditionsthroughwhichthenationalistphenomenaemerged.Notwithstandingtheimportanceoftheseconditions,thefocushereisontheculturalaspectsasmanifestedinthelanguageofthediscourseandideology.Proto-nationalistandnationalistphenomenacouldnotexistoutsidetheirdiscourseandideologythroughwhichtheyweremodelled,shapedandidentifiedasaconceptualframeworkthroughassociation,behaviouralpatterns,andloyaltytocollectiveidentities.Theoristsofnationalismtendtodealwiththetermsnation,nationalismasgivenswithoutspecifyingtheexacttimeandplaceinwhichthetermshadbeencoinedtosignifytheirconcepts.ThisbookfocusesonnationalistandethnicdiscoursethroughtextualanalysisfromclassicalandmodernArabic.Tracingthedevelopmentintheusageoftermsrelatedtocollectiveidentities,thepresentstudyshowsthatArabicprintlanguage,educationandpressrootedthe
