<P> <i>The Origins of Arab Nationalism</i> contains the most recent revisionist scholarship on the rise of Arab nationalsim that began with the fall of the Ottoman Empire.</P><P>The various contributors, including C. Ernest Down, Mahmoud Haddad, Reeva Simon, and Beth Baron, provide an unusually broad survey of the Arab world at the turn on the century, permitting a comparison of developments in a variety of settings from Syria and Egypt to the Hijaz, Libya, and Iraq.</P>