In January 1976, the Arab Socialist Union's National Congress attempted to promote Gaddafi to major general.

Gaddafi announced that he had won a spectacular military victory over the United States and the country was officially renamed the " Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriyah ".

Politics in the Syrian Arab Republic takes place in the framework of what is officially a semi-presidential republic, but what the CIA consider " a republic under an authoritarian regime " where the power is in the hands of the President of Syria and his family, all members of the ruling Arab Socialist Ba ' ath Party which is a cell of the Syrian-led Ba ' ath Party ( established in 1966 when the original Ba ' ath Party was dissolved and split into two ).

The Ba ' ath Party is Syria's ruling party and the constitution states that " the Arab Socialist Ba ' ath Party leads society and the state.

In 1963, the Military Committee of the Syrian Regional Command of the Arab Socialist Ba ' ath Party spent most of its time plannining to take power through a conventional military coup.

A leading member of the revolutionary Arab Socialist Ba ' ath Party, and later, the Baghdad-based Ba ' ath Party and its regional organisation Ba ' ath Party – Iraq Region, which espoused ba ' athism, a mix of Arab nationalism and Arab socialism, Saddam played a key role in the 1968 coup, later referred to as the 17 July Revolution, that brought the party to long-term power of Iraq.

* In 1968, a coup in Iraq led to the overthrow of Abdul Rahman Arif by the Arab Socialist Baath Party.

In the process, the National Union was renamed the Arab Socialist Union.

Category: Arab Socialist Union ( Egypt ) politicians

The local branches of the ruling party, the Arab Socialist Union ( ASU ), fostered a certain peasant political activism and coopted the local notables — in particular the village headmen — and checked their independence from the regime.

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* Arab Socialist Action Party

** ( National Union ) 1956-1958, ( Arab Socialist Union ) 1971-1976

** ( Iraqi Arab Socialist Union ) 1964-1968, ( Arab Socialist Ba ' ath Party of Iraq led the National Progressive Front ) 1968-2003

** ( Arab Socialist Union ) 1971-1977

** ( Arab Liberation Movement ) 1953-1954, ( Arab Socialist Ba ' ath Party of Syria led the National Progressive Front ) 1963-2012

** United Arab Republic ( National Union ) 1958-1962, ( Arab Socialist Union ) 1962-1971

Ba ' athism is a revolutionary Arab nationalist ideology that seeks the unification of all claimed Arab lands into a single Arab state.

Ba ' athist heads of state such as Syrian President Hafez al-Assad and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein created personality cults around themselves portraying themselves as the nationalist saviours of the Arab world.

Ba ' athism, Arab Socialism, and Arab Nationalism suffered, and Islamist movements inspired by Mawlana Maududi, and Sayyid Qutb gained ground.

Events and political movements that contributed to Lebanon's violent implosion include, among others, the departure of European colonial powers, the emergence of Arab Nationalism, Arab Socialism in the context of the Cold War, the Arab-Israeli Conflict, Ba ' athism, the Iranian Revolution, Palestinian militants, Black September in Jordan, Islamic fundamentalism, and the Iran – Iraq War.

Muslims had actually lived in the region for quite some time ; the famous Arab historian and geographer, Al-Masudi, reported Muslims amongst Africans in the land of Sofa in 947 ( modern day Mozambique, itself a derivative of the name of the Arab Shiekh who ruled the area at the time when the Portuguese arrived, Musa bin Ba ' ik ).

* The Arab Liberation Front ( ALF ) – Minor faction, aligned to the Iraqi Ba ' ath Party

* The Palestinian Arab Front ( PAF ) – minor pro-Fatah, former Iraqi Ba ' athists faction

Aflaq and al-Arsuzi were key figures in the establishment of the Arab Ba ’ ath ( Renaissance ) Party, and the former was for long its chief ideologist, combining elements of Marxist thought with a nationalism to a considerable extent reminiscent of nineteenth-century European romantic nationalism.

The Ba ' ath Arab nationalist party eventually ascended to power in the bloody coup d ' état of 1963.

In 702 AD Yzid ibn al-Muhallab defeated certain Arab rebels, followers of Ibn al-Ash ' ath, and forced them out of Herat.

Of the 16 members of Qasim's cabinet, 12 were Ba ' ath Party members ; however, the party turned against Qasim due to his refusal to join Gamel Abdel Nasser's United Arab Republic.

However, this had proven to completely backfire both on Iraq and on the part of the Arab states, for Khomeini was widely perceived as a hero for managing to defend Iran and maintain the war with little foreign support against the heavily backed Iraq and only managed to boost Islamic radicalism not only within the Arab states, but within Iraq itself, creating new tensions between the Sunni Ba ' ath Party and the majority Shiite population.

Sub-regional standards organizations also exist such as the MERCOSUR Standardization Association ( AMN ), the CARICOM Regional Organisation for Standards and Quality ( CROSQ ), and the ASEAN Consultative Committee for Standards and Quality ( ACCSQ ), EAC East Africa Standards Committee www. eac-quality. net, and the Gulf Standardasation Organasation for GCC Arab Countries.

He is also a substitute for the Committee on Regional Development, a substitute for the temporary committee on policy challenges and budgetary means of the enlarged Union 2007 – 2013, vice-chair of the delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union ( including Libya ), and a member of the delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly.

A leading movie star and the first UNDP Regional Goodwill Ambassador for the Arab States in 1998 and since then has worked hard to convey to his audience in the Middle East important human development messages.

He was a substitute for the Committee on Regional Development, a member of the Delegation for relations with Iran, and a substitute for the Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union ( including Libya ).

This academic assignment started on 1 September 2012 following a 4-year tenure as the Director of the UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science in Arab States located in Cairo, Egypt.

* Dr Tarek Shawki, Director of the Regional Bureau for Science in the Arab States, UNESCO delivered the third keynote presentation at the Learning and Technology World Forum

That said they outlasted the contemporary Alexander-bodied Guy Arab IVs delivered in smaller quantities and some ran over twenty years in service, with the late survivors running for Lothian Regional Transport, Leyland used ECT fuel returns in the late 1950s in its advertising, " Scots find them thrifty " was the headline over a greyscale plate of one, beside a large balloon caption which read " 9. 75 MPG!

* The Certificate in Arab and Regional Studies provides students with an interdisciplinary understanding of the Arab and Islamic worlds.

He is the author of The Decline of the Arab Israeli Conflict: Middle East Politics and the Quest for Regional Order ( 1998 ) and co-author of The Palestinian Hamas: Vision, Violence and Adjustment ( 2000 ).

* Arab Air Carriers Organization Regional Training Center

The Egyptian Armed Forces are the largest in Africa, and the Arab World, and is the 10th largest in the world, consisting of the Egyptian Army, Egyptian Navy, Egyptian Air Force and Egyptian Air Defense Command.

The new regime, headed by the Revolutionary Command Council ( RCC ), abolished the monarchy and proclaimed the new Libyan Arab Republic.

In March 1985, it was announced that the National Command of the Revolutionary Forces Command in the Arab Nation had been formed with Gaddafi at its head.

The 9th Armoured Division served as the Arab Joint Forces Command North reserve and saw little action.

Although he discouraged Syria and Palestinian paramilitary factions from provoking the Israelis, admitting that he had no plans for war with Israel, Nasser nonetheless called for the creation of the United Arab Command ( UAC ).

King Hussein arrived in Cairo on 30 May and committed Jordan to the United Arab Command — an alliance which also included Egypt and Syria — under the command of Egyptian general Muhammad Sidqi.

* United Arab Command, a unified military command structure of the member states of the Arab League

The Middle East Command hastily assembled a formation known as Iraqforce — which included the Indian 10th Infantry Division and the Arab Legion — and it arrived on April 18.

This cooperation eased integration of the Egyptian Army into the Gulf War coalition of 1990-91, during which the Egyptian II Corps under Maj. Gen. Salah Mohamed Attia Halaby, with 3rd Mechanised Division and 4th Armoured Division, fought as part of the Arab Joint Forces Command North.

The party's central governing body, the National Command, included representatives from its organisations in all the Arab countries where Baathists had a significant presence.