Monthly Archives: September 2026

Sylvia Haim-Kedourie, Frank Salameh, & Michel Aflaq All Reminded Us That “Arab Nationalism” Is Merely a Forme Fruste* of Islam

(*Forme Fruste per Merriam Webster: “an atypical and usually incomplete manifestation of a disease”) Sylvia Haim (Kedourie) one of the most esteemed 20th century scholars of so-called “secular” Arab nationalism long ago demonstrated that this ideology was in fact another expression … Continue reading