OPVL on ‘Program of the League of the Arab Fatherland: Negib Azoury’
- Who: Negib Azoury
- Where: Paris
- When: 1905
- What: An opinion about the Program of the League of the Arab Fatherland
- Purpose: A document in which Negib Azoury articulates his opinion about the league and attempts to refute the league’s plan and dismantle its platform (e.g. by stating that Egypt cannot be united with the Arab Empire).
- Value: Can give us an inside look at an Arab’s point of view of the league and the a primordial form of Arab Nationalism (Azoury wants a central empire controlled by a devoted sherif rather than more countries that could not be controlled well and would be introducing “the germs of discord and destruction”).
- Limitations: The actual platform of the league is not present, so Azoury might be leaving key facts out of his statement and this limits the ability to analyze this document completely. This statement was translated from its original language to English making its original diction unrecoverable, so we cannot view what Azoury wrote, but rather what the translator translated with an accuracy of which we do not know.
September 4th, 2009 at 8:40 am
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September 11th, 2011 at 6:22 am
Outstanding post over again!! Go on with posts like this one!;)