This chapter explores the emergence of the modern identity category of Arab, encompassing different faiths, and discusses the complex political landscape of the Arab world during the interwar period.
Featuring Ussama Makdisi on how Western colonialism and Zionism exploited, exacerbated, and imposed sectarianism across the Arab Middle East. This is the SECOND of a two-part interview.
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