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The Corona Virus (Covid-19) pandemic crisis swept the world rapidly and imposed itself as the central crisis of this century at political, social, and economic levels. Therefore, the Arab Crises Team-ACT decided to be devoted to this research. The report here describes the characterization of the crisis and its environment (international, regional, and Arab), and its different implications. The report discusses the social, political, and geostrategic aspects of the crisis in the Arab world. It also presents its scenarios, its expected repercussions on the Arab world, and the Arab options to confront and contain this crisis. The report provides, in the end, the features of a joint Arab project to face the crisis and its repercussions. The pandemic spread from Wuhan in China to the whole world in a short period. It affected different segments of societies and states. Later While in Lebanon and Iraq represented a challenge to the consensual pattern of sectarian policies, trying to override this structure which proved its failure in light of the current elite in classifying polices that leads to wise ruling or development in ruling patterns which will lead to social or economic advancement. In similarity to the Arab Spring experience, the study concluded that people movements in Algeria and Sudan weren’t able to set up their own organizations. These movements had two characteristics, weak organizational contents and weak political and intellectual context which lessen their political development or building special authority networks. In its second part, the study concluded the necessity of dismantling sectarian statements which targets the mobilization of the people against the other sect to be able to control and manipulate the masses, by developing an a discourse based on the national interest and springs from its ability to rise above sectarianism while guaranteeing religious and sectarian freedom. The study confirmed that Arab People’s movements, whether in the Lebanese, Iraqi or the Algerian Sudanese cases, and former experiences in the first wave of the Arab Spring in Egypt, Tunisia, Syria and Yemen, will witness ups and downs and doesn’t expect decisive success in any of these experiences, given the complicated problems related to the structure of the state, its economy and job creation, in addition to sectarian, ethnic and religious problems, as well as the pressure of regional powers the reject change and sponsors traditionalism. But it is certain that the intellectual and political development is ongoing throughout the Arab World and produces advanced records that refines experiences and benefits from old ones.
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