Abstract: In reply to Doron & Heycock (1999, 2010), Heycock & Doron (2003) and Alexopoulou, Doron & Heycock (2004), the current article argues that the multiple nominative constructions of the Japanese type do not exist in Arabic. Based on three pieces of evidence from binding, A’-interception and Case, the article shows that the so-called broad subject is a clitic left dislocated element base-generated in the A’-domain. The article therefore supports Landau (2009, 2010), who denies the existence of broad subjects in Hebrew, concluding that broad subjects do not exist in Semitic languages at all.