Let’s banish the term ’Arab world’. What does it mean anyway? | Neheda Barakat | Opinion | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/18/lets-banish-the-term-arab-world-what-does-it-mean-anyway
Labelling 381 million people from 22 countries as monolithic ‘Arabs’ is misleading and inaccurate
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Wed 18 Apr 2018 06.42 BST
a family rides a motorcycle on a street that was damaged during fighting, Raqqa, Syria.
A family rides a motorcycle in a war-damaged Syria. As conflict rages, the language we use in covering this region becomes ever more important. Photograph: Hussein Malla/AP
With conflicts raging on in Syria, Palestine, Yemen and Iraq and a diaphanous calm in the rest of the Middle East, the language we use in covering this region is not only hindering our understanding of the issues, but it is also misguiding strategic policies.