Being Arab - Couverture rigide

Kassir, Samir

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1844670996 ISBN 13 : 9781844670994

Editeur : Verso Books, 2006

Synopsis

Being Arab Offering a discussion on the crisis in Arab identity, this book talks about it means to be alienated from one's roots, and how to trace back those lines of history. The author describes the state of Arab malaise, and searches to understand how the Arab world arrived at a point of political and intellectual stagnation. Full description

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Being Arab is a brilliant exploration of the current political and intellectual stagnation of the Arab world, by one of its most prominent journalists.

In explaining how the region arrived at this point, Kassir turns to the past, revisiting the Arab “golden age,” the extraordinary nineteenth-century flowering of cultural expression that continued into the twentieth as, from Cairo to Baghdad and from Beirut to Casablanca, painters, poets, musicians, playwrights and novelists came together to create a new, living Arab culture. Considering the huge impact of modernity on the region, and the accompanying shockwaves that turned society upside-down, Kassir states that the current crisis in Arab identity lies in the failure to come to terms with modernity, turning instead to false solutions such as pan-Arabism and Islamism.

Being Arab is a clarion call, urging Arabs to embrace their own history, to reject Western double standards and Islamism alike, and to take the future of the region into their own hands.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Samir Kassir (1960–2005) was a columnist for the daily newspaper An-Nahar, wrote regularly for Le Monde Diplomatique, and published a number of important works in French as well as Arabic. He was killed by a car bomb in Beirut on June 2, 2005.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Verso Books
• Date d'édition: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1844670996
• ISBN 13: 9781844670994
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 96