Syria’s Identity Crisis: Group Solidarity vs. Nation Building when i wrote this article, many of my friends who read or study about syria did not find the term identity crisis adequate. Yet, i think there is an identity crisis in syria. The sense of syrianess is weakening and the dichotomy of us and them is becoming clearer over time. the article was published last year in November. abstract: The longitude of the conflict in Syria does not merely cause physical and institutional, but also social and cultural destruction. Over the course of the conflict, the religious and ethnic affiliations of Syrians have become crucial in the process of self-identification. This change significantly contributed to the fragility of the Syrian collective identity. Notions of identity and categorization on the one hand, Ibn Khaldun’s al-assabiya on the other, help explain the affiliation based groupings and the weakening of comprehensive self-identification. https://academia.edu/7783935/Syrias_Identity_Crisis_Group_Solidarity_vs._Nation_Building fragilestates.org/2013/11/28/syria-identity-crisis-group-solidarity-vs-nation-building/
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