Epilogue: The Multiple Embeddedness of Family Firms in the Arab World

In the present day, the term “Arab world” could be related to the geographical area occupied by 22 countries that form the Arab League1 in Africa and the Middle East with a population of 422 million people, more than half of whom are under 30 years old. To be inclusive, beyond the Western stereotype, the Arab world is about Arabs but also about Berbers, Kurds, and Egyptian Coptic Christians, among others. It is about Islam but also about pre-Islam polytheistic religions and other faiths that emerged as monotheist religions in the region. It is about the Arabic language but also about other languages, dialects, and colonial influence across the geography. The Arab world is a mosaic of incredible identities formed by religions, cultures, languages, traditions, faiths, political systems, geographies, history, and artistic expressions. It is also about diasporas dispersed around the world. It is unity through diversity. For the individual navigating this amazing context, identity becomes a paradox of conflict and peace, stability and instability and certainty and uncertainty. However, the glue that ties the building blocks of identity is the family—the family as a nuclear system that carries the past, the present, and the future of social, relational, emotional, and economic expectations.