القبيلة والربيع العربي

This article analyzes the location of the tribe in the so-called Arab Spring or the protest movement that has taken place in Arab societies since the end of 2010. How did the tribe interact with various experiences according to the nature of societies and the mechanisms of the functioning of their political systems? an‎d in order to avoid falling into preconceived ideas and ready readings, especially What is related to the stereotyped images that the media market according to its agendas in light of the ongoing local and regional conflicts, between amplification, dwarfing and distortion, confuse the Arab citizen, the limits of the responsibility of the tribe in the current events, so we presented in the article the concept of the tribe from the model of Ibn Khaldun and before to the modern concepts that The transformations taking place at the level of the tribe's structure and the limits of its influence are in line with the rapid political, economic and cultural transformations. We tried to stand on the set of challenges facing the tribe, the most important of which is the political employment of the tribe from the colonial phase to the stage of building the national state, the problematic of dealing with electoral benefits, the difficulty of singling out the internal affairs due to the overlapping and intersection of international interests, the problematic presence in security institutions, and the tribe’s involvement in sectarian alliances in search of About survival and continuity. These and other problems we will try to address in this brief pause to try to remove part of the confusion about the actual role of the tribe in the current reality of Arab societies to determine the limits of their responsibilities.