Pan-Arabism, the Umma, and Why the Arab League Can't Enforce Anything
Pan-Arabism borrows the emotional grammar of religious solidarity but swaps creed for language — and that swap creates problems the Arab League was never built to solve. This episode untangles umma from Arab nation (they share a Semitic root, not a membership list), traces the League from its seven founding members in 1945 Cairo to today's twenty-two, and explains why a consensus body with no enforcement mechanism produces communiqués instead of policy. Then the fractures: the Arab Peace Initiative of 2002 versus the Abraham Accords, the Qatar blockade that saw four members sanction a fifth…
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