What is the nation?

Who is the Arab reader who does not know the meaning of the nation? After a century and increased the saturation of the writings of Arab nationalists and their speeches, most Arab readers became fully convinced that the question "What is the nation?" A absurd question originally, and that it is a matter of definition of the definition necessarily, otherwise it is from the one who begged himself to question that the Arabs were a nation since they appeared on the stage of history 3000 years ago, and that they are "one nation", and "with an eternal message"? This reference book is to question anything, but it is the reader with a disturbing trip that will change his opinion on many things, and will present to him a different perspective, and he will eventually discover that the issue is more complicated than he was delusional at first sight. With the exception of the first article, Johan Vikah''s article, which prepares A reference text for all subsequent national writings, and it goes that the nation is a natural phenomenon in its own right, and that it exists in isolation from any human effort and historical conditions, all other articles selected here defend a counter -thesis that says that the nation is a human industry, and we produce creation, formation, and even invention and fabrication that is based Humans have in certain historical contexts, and that people do not generate a nation, but rather they become a nation with time and in specific historical contexts. It is a thesis that will repeat its spectrum and resonance, with many variations, among the thinkers of different trends and stripes, since the lecture "What is the nation?" The famous for Ernest Renan to the book "Imagine groups" by Anderson, passing through the writings of Joseph Stalin, Rabandarbat Tagore, Hugon Citton-Watson, Ernest Glanner, Elie Kidori, Eric Hopbam, Kelford Gertz, Humi Baba, and Samuel Huntington.