Ananta Insights | Arab Unity: A Desert Mirage? by Ambassador Mahesh Sachdev | July 2025
Introduction: A persistent social mythology about the swathe of twenty-two Arab countries[1] stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf is about their manifest “unity.” The emotive argument cites many commonalities among 473 million Arabs: they speak dialects of the same Arabic language, subscribe mostly to the same religion (Islam), and have a shared history of often facing […]
