Introduction / Giacomo Luciani and Ghassan Salame -- Speech diversity and language unity : Arabic as an integrating factor / Zakaria Abuhamdia -- The media and Arab integration / Hamdi Kandil -- The role of education in domestic and inter-Arab integration / Michael Suleiman -- Attitudes to the nation and to the state in Arab public opinion polls / Tawfic Farah -- Economic interdependence and national sovereignty / Samir Makdisi -- Migration as a factor conditioning state economic control and financial policy options / Ibrahim Saad Eddine Abdallah -- Immigrants in the Arab Gulf countries : sojourners or settlers? / Georges Sabagh -- Migration and political integration in the Arab world / Sharon Stanton Russell -- The impact of Palestine on Arab politics / Walid Kazziha -- Israeli interference in internal Arab politics : the case of Lebanon / Avi Shlaim -- Integration in the Arab world : the institutional framework / Ghassan Salame.