num_pages: 266
description: The Arab Socialist Ba'th Party regards all Arabs as being part of one nation both in the cultural and spiritual sense. The different countries in which they live, make up a politically and economically united fatherland. In the Party's documents, the Arab fatherland means all the Arab countries. Each of these is a qotr which, literally translated, means a country; in the Ba'th context, it should be read as province or region. The adjective qotri (provincial, regional) is used when referring to an individual country. The adjective qawmi (national), on the other hand, is used when referring to all the countries which together make up the fatherland. Thus, the National Directorate deals only with matters concerning the whole fatherland. Each Regional Directorate deals with matters within its own country. As for example, the Lebanese or Jordanian Regional Directorate etc.The word Ba'th can be translated as meaning revival, resurgence or renewal. Hitherto, resurgence seems to be the meaning which is preferred by Arab intellectuals and foreign Arab experts.
language: English
title: The Starting Point: Speeches Delivered After June 5th
publisher: Arab Ba'th Socialist Party