ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to determinethe hierarchy of group affiliations of university students in the Arab Middle East (ME). The Arab ME has been an area of concern and interest not only to the traditional historian and archeologist and the ever present strategist and economist, but also to the student of human relations. Arab Nationalism occurs in one form or another on all political platforms except in the case of one highly sectarian Christian party in Lebanon, and ranges from those groups that are strictly religious like the Moslem Brotherhood, to the most secular like the Ba'th "Renaissance" Party. Since 1900, as a result of the spread of education and of political consciousness, a new force has entered the area—mainly the political party, which again demands the loyalty of some of the people. Political parties of many kinds and of all degrees of organization and effectiveness have sprung up.
