The emergence of European colonialism and the economic, social, and political factors that affected its development. Competition between colonial powers and its effect on liberation movements, types of colonialism (settler, military, economic, etc). The emergence and shaping of liberation movements in the Arab World, organizations, parties and groups leading liberation movements. The political, economic, social and intellectual effects of European colonialism on the Arab Word, the West’s alliance with minorities in the Arab world, the creation of weak political structures in the area.
