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List of Arab nationalist parties

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     Part of ruling government

Below are lists of political parties espousing Pan-Arabist and Arab Nationalist ideologies in various approaches. Arab nationalism or Arabism in its contemporary concept refers to the belief that the Arab people are one people united by language, culture, history, geography and interests, and that a single Arab state will be established to unite the Arabs within the borders drawn by colonial powers.

Ruling as Majority

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Country Emblem Name Abbr. Leader Founded Ideology Legislature Notes
 Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Polisario Front

جبهة البوليساريو

POLISARIO Brahim Ghali 10 May 1973 Sahrawi nationalism

Big tent

Social democracy

Democratic socialism

Arab nationalism

Pan-Africanism

National Council:
53 / 53
Currently the sole legal party
 Syria Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region

حزب البعث العربي الاشتراكي – قطر سوريا

ASBP Bashar al-Assad 7 April 1947 Neo-Ba'athism People's Assembly:
167 / 250
Ruling party since 1973
 Yemen General People's Congress

المؤتمر الشعبي العام

GPC Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi (pro-Hadi faction)[1]

Sadeq Amin Abu Rass (pro-Houthi faction)[1][2]

Ahmed Saleh (pro-Saleh faction)[1]

24 August 1982 Yemeni nationalism

Arab nationalism

Pan-Arabism

Big tent

House of Representatives:
170 / 301

Minor Representation in Lower-House

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Country Emblem Name Abbr. Leader Founded Ideology Legislature
 Algeria National Liberation Front

جبهة التحرير الوطني

NLF Abou El Fadhel Baadji [ar] 23 October 1954 Arab nationalism

Algerian nationalism

Pan-Arabism

Anti-imperialism

Arab socialism

National Assembly:
98 / 407
Dignity Party [ar]

حزب الكرامة

DP Mohamed Eddaoui 1997 Nasserism

Left-wing nationalism

Democratic socialism

Left-wing populism

National Assembly:
1 / 407
 Egypt National Progressive Unionist Party

حزب التجمع الوطني التقدمي الوحدوي

NPU Sayed Abdel Aal[3] 1977 Nasserism

Left-wing nationalism

Democratic socialism

Left-wing populism

House of Representatives:
6 / 568
Arab Democratic Nasserist Party

الحزب العربى الديمقراطى الناصرى

ADN Sameh Ashour 19 April 1992 Arab nationalism

Arab socialism

Pan-Arabism

Nasserism

House of Representatives:
1 / 568
 Iraq Popular Movement in Iraq

الحزب العربى الديمقراطى الناصرى

PMI Sheikh Mohammed Taha al-Hamdoun 2011 Sunni Arab interests

Iraqi nationalism

Federalism

Council of Representatives:
1 / 568
 Israel United Arab List

لقائمة العربية الموحدة

UAL Mansour Abbas 1996 Conservatism[4]

Israeli Arab interests

Two-state solution

Islamism[5][6]

Islamic democracy[7]

Social conservatism

Knesset:
4 / 120
The Democratic Front for Peace and Equality

الجبهة الديمقراطية للسلام والمساواة

Hadash Ayman Odeh 1977 Communism

Eco-socialism

Israeli Arab interests

Two-state solution

Non-Zionism

Knesset:
3 / 120
Arab Movement for Renewal

الحركة العربية للتغيير

Ta'al Ahmad Tibi 1990s Arab nationalism[8][9]

Israeli Arab interests

Secularism[8][9]

Two-state solution

Knesset:
3 / 120
Balad Party

بلد

Balad Sami Abu Shehadeh 1995 Arab nationalism[10]

Left-wing nationalism[11]

Secularism[12]

Anti-Zionism[13]

Knesset:
1 / 120
 Jordan Islamic Centre Party

حزب الوسط الاسلامي

ICP Madalla al-Tarawneh December 2001 Islamic democracy

Arab nationalism

Chamber of Deputies:
5 / 130
National Current Party

حزب التيار الوطني

NCP Saleh Rusheidat [ar; de] 2009 Jordanian nationalism

Arab nationalism

Pan-Arabism

Chamber of Deputies:
4 / 130
Jordanian Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party

حزب البعث العربي الاشتراكي الأردني

Ba'ath Akram al-Homsi 1966 Neo-Ba'athism

Arab nationalism

Saddamism

Chamber of Deputies:
1 / 130
 Lebanon Progressive Socialist Party

الحزب التقدمي الإشتراكي

PSP Walid Jumblatt 1 May 1949 Social democracy

Third Way

Democratic socialism

Arab nationalism

Pan-Arabism

Parliament of Lebanon:
8 / 128
Dignity Movement

تيار الكرامة

ALP Faisal Karami 1966 Arab nationalism

Anti-Zionism

Pan-Arabism

Parliament of Lebanon:
1 / 128
Union Party

حزب الإتحاد

UP Abdul Rahim Mrad 1960 Nasserism

Pan-Arabism

Parliament of Lebanon:
1 / 128
Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Lebanon Region

حزب البعث العربي الاشتراكي في لبنان

Assem Qanso 1950[14] Socialism

Arab nationalism

Ba'athism

Parliament of Lebanon:
1 / 128
Popular Nasserist Organization

التنظيم الشعبي الناصري

PNO Osama Saad 1973 Nasserism

Arab socialism

Arab nationalism

Pan-Arabism

Anti-Zionism

Left-wing nationalism

Parliament of Lebanon:
1 / 128
 Mauritania Sawab

حزب الصواب

Sawab Abdel Salem Ould Horma 23 May 2004 Ba'athism

Arab nationalism

Parliament of Mauritania:
5 / 157
People's Progressive Alliance

Alliance populaire progressiste

PPA Messaoud Ould Boulkheir Nasserism

Social democracy

Parliament of Mauritania:
7 / 157
Socialist Democratic Unionist Party

الحزب الوحدوي الاشتراكي الديمقراطي

SDU Mahfouz Weld al-Azizi 20 September 1994 Neo-Ba'athism

Arab nationalism

Parliament of Mauritania:
1 / 157
 Morocco Istiqlal Party PI Nizar Baraka April 1937 Conservatism[15]
Arab nationalism[16][17]
Monarchism
Parliament of Morocco:
17 / 120
 Palestine Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير فلسطين

PFLP Ahmad Sa'adat 1967 Anti-Zionism[18][19]

Pan-Arabism

Arab nationalism[20]

One-state solution

Legislative Council:
3 / 132
 Syria Arab Socialist Union Party of Syria

حزب الاتحاد الاشتراكي العربي في سورية

ASU Safwan al-Qudsi 1973 Arab nationalism

Arab socialism

Nasserism

Pan-Arabism

Left-wing nationalism

People's Assembly:
3 / 250
Socialist Unionist Party

حزب الوحدويين الاشتراكيين

SUP Fayiz Ismail 1962 Nasserism

Arab nationalism

Arab socialism

People's Assembly:
2 / 250
National Covenant Party

حزب الوحدويين الاشتراكيين

NCP Fayiz Ismail 1972 Arab nationalism

Arab socialism

Islamic socialism

People's Assembly:
2 / 250
Arab Democratic Union Party

حزب الاتحاد العربي الديمقراطي

ADU Iyad Ghassan Osman[21] Arab nationalism

Nasserism

People's Assembly:
1 / 250
 Tunisia Democratic Current

التيار الديمقراطي

DC Ghazi Chaouachi 30 May 2013 Social democracy

Third Way

Nationalism

Progressivism

Pan-Arabism[22]

Assembly:
22 / 217
People's Movement

حركة الشعب

PM Zouhair Maghzaoui 2005 Secularism

Democratic socialism

Nasserism

Arab nationalism

Assembly:
15 / 217
Popular Front

الجبهة الشعبية

PF Hamma Hammami[23] 7 October 2012 Socialism

Secularism

Arab nationalism

Pan-Arabism

Assembly:
1 / 217
 Yemen Yemeni Socialist Party

الحزب الاشتراكي اليمني

YSP Abdulraham Al-Saqqaf 1978[24] Social democracy

Arab nationalism

House of Representatives:
8 / 301
Nasserist Unionist People's Organisation

التنظيم الوحدوي الشعبي الناصري

NUP Abdulmalik Al-Mekhlafi 25 December 1965 Nasserism

Yemeni unionism

House of Representatives:
3 / 301
Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Yemen Region

حزب البعث العربي الاشتراكي - قطر اليمن

Ba'ath Mohammed Al-Zubairy 1951 Ba'athism

Arab socialism

House of Representatives:
1 / 301

Formerly ruling as Majority

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Country Emblem Name Abbr. Leader Founded Dissolved Ideology Legislature at peak
 Egypt Arab Socialist Union

الاتحاد الاشتراكي العربي

ASU Gamal Abdel Nasser (first)

Anwar Sadat (last)

1962 1978 Pan-Arabism

Arab nationalism

Arab socialism

Secularism

Nasserism

Left-wing populism[25]

House of Representatives:
360 / 360
 Iraq Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region

حزب البعث العربي الاشتراكي في العراق

Ba'ath Raghad Hussein 1947 Neo-Ba'athism

Saddamism

Council of Representatives:
165 / 250
Arab Socialist Union

الاتحاد الاشتراكي العربي

ASU Fuad ar-Rikabi 1964 1968 Arab nationalism

Arab socialism

Pan-Arabism

Nasserism

Anti-imperialism

Republicanism

Sole legal party
 Libya Arab Socialist Union

الاتحاد الاشتراكي العربي

ASU Muammar Gaddafi 11 June 1971 3 March 1977 Arab nationalism

Arab socialism

Pan-Arabism

Nasserism

Sole legal party
 South Yemen Yemeni Socialist Party

الحزب الاشتراكي اليمني

YSP Abdulraham Al-Saqqaf 1978[24] Arab nationalism

Communism

Marxism–Leninism

Sole legal party:[26]
111 / 111
 Sudan National Congress Party

المؤتمر الوطني

NCP Omar al-Bashir 1998[27] 2019 Islamism

Arab nationalism

Sufism

Authoritarianism

Militarism

Anti-Americanism

Anti-Zionism

Populism

National Assembly:
350 / 360
Sudanese Socialist Union

الاتحاد الاشتراكي السوداني

SCU Jaafar Nimeiry 1971 1985 Arab nationalism

Arab socialism

Anti-communism

Authoritarianism

Nasserism

National Assembly:
332 / 368
 United Arab Republic National Union

الاتحاد الاشتراكي السوداني

NU Anwar Sadat (First)

Kamal el-Din Hussein (Last)

1957 1962 Arab nationalism

Arab socialism

Pan-Arabism

Anti-Zionism

Anti-communism

Anti-Ikhwanism

Republicanism

Sole legal party:[26]
600 / 600

No representation in Lower-House

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Nasserist

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 EgyptDignity Party (Egypt), Egyptian Popular Current

 EuropeArab European League

 IraqArab Struggle Party, Nasserist Socialist Vanguard Party,

 LebanonAl-Mourabitoun, Nasserist Unionists Movement, Union of Working People's Forces, Toilers League, Lebanese Arab Movement

 PalestineArab Palestine Organization, Action Organization for the Liberation of Palestine

 SyriaDemocratic Arab Socialist Union

 YemenDemocratic Nasserist Party, Nasserist Reform Organization

Arab Nationalism

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 BahrainNational Justice Movement, Progressive Democratic Tribune

 EgyptArab Unification Party, Arab Party for Justice and Equality, Arab Unification Party, Egyptian Arab Union Party, Free Republican Party, National Conciliation Party, United Nasserist Party, Arabic Popular Movement, Arabism Egypt Party

 IranIslamic Reconciliation Party

 IsraelArab Democratic Party, Arab National Party

 JordanJordanian Arab Party

 KuwaitKuwait Democratic Forum

 LebanonArab Democratic Party, Democratic Left Movement, Najjadeh Party, People's Movement, Lebanese Arab Struggle Movement, Arab Unification Party

 PalestinePalestinian Arab Front, Palestinian Liberation Front

 TunisiaPopular Unity Party, Unionist Democratic Union

Arab Socialism

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 BahrainNational Democratic Action Society, Popular Front for the Liberation of Bahrain, Popular Front for the Liberation of the Occupied Arabian Gulf

 EgyptEgypt Arab Socialist Party

 IraqArab Revolutionary Workers Party

 IsraelDa'am Workers Party

 JordanJordanian Democratic Popular Unity Party

 LebanonArab Socialist Action Party, Lebanese Social Democratic Party, Progressive Arab Front, Socialist Lebanon, Communist Action Organization in Lebanon, Arab Socialist Union

 SudanIslamic Socialist Party

 SyriaSocial Democratic Unionists

 TunisiaDemocratic Patriots' Unified Party, Workers' Party

Ba'athism

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 AlgeriaArab Socialist Ba'ath Party of Algeria

 BahrainNationalist Democratic Assembly[28]

 IraqArab Socialist Ba'ath,[29] Al-Awda

 JordanArab Ba'ath Progressive Party, Jordanian Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party

 KuwaitArab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Kuwait Region

 LebanonSocialist Arab Lebanon Vanguard Party

 LibyaLibyan Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party[30]

 MauritaniaNational Vanguard Party

 PalestineArab Liberation Front, As-Sa'iqa

 SudanArab Socialist Ba'ath Party, Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, Sudanese Ba'ath Party

 Sahrawi Arab Democratic RepublicSahrawi Socialist Baath Party

 SyriaDemocratic Socialist Arab Ba'ath Party, Arab Socialist Ba'ath

 TunisiaParty of the Democratic Arab Vanguard

 YemenArab Socialist Ba'ath Party, National Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party

Defunct or Banned

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Nasserist

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 EgyptNasserist People's Congress Party, Senior Nasserist Conference[31]

 LebanonProgressive Arab Front, Union of Working People's Forces-Corrective Movement, United Nasserite Organization

 LibyaArab Socialist Union (Libya)

 Saudi ArabiaArabian Peninsula People's Union

Arab Nationalism

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 EgyptSyrian Unity Party

 EuropeAndalusian Liberation

 IraqAl-Muthanna Club, Arab Unity Party, Party of National Brotherhood, Reconciliation and Liberation Bloc

 IsraelAgriculture and Development, Arab List for Bedouin and Villagers, Cooperation and Brotherhood

 PalestineArab People's Movement, National Bloc, Palestine Arab Party, Reform Party

Ottoman EmpireAl-ʽAhd (Iraq), Al-Fatat

 SyriaArab National Party, League of Nationalist Action, National Party

 TunisiaDestour

 YemenFree Yemeni Movement, National Liberation Front

Arab Socialism

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 EgyptYoung Egypt Party

 IraqArab Struggle Party, Arabic Toilers' Movement

 JordanJordanian Revolutionary People's Party, National Socialist Party

 LebanonOrganization of Lebanese Socialists

 MauritaniaMauritanian National Renaissance Party

 OmanDhofar Liberation Front, Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman

 PalestineYouth Congress Party, Palestine Popular Liberation Organization

 Saudi ArabiaArab Socialist Action Party

 YemenRevolutionary Democratic Party

 ZanzibarUmma Party

Ba'athism

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 OmanNational Democratic Front for the Liberation of Oman and the Arabian Gulf

 YemenPeople's Vanguard Party

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