One narrative of the Arab world’s encounter with modernity

Syndicated from Tadamon on Wed, 2007-03-07
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Samir Kassir’s ‘Being Arab’ - last testament of an engaged intellectualBy Jim Quilty, Daily Star, Thursday, March 8th, 2007BEIRUT: Before he was assassinated in June 2005, columnist and academic Samir Kassir completed a slim book in French called “Considérations sur le malheur arabe” He promised an Arabic edition and in late 2006 “Being Arab,” an [...]