Arab Intellectuals and American Power
Author : M. D. Walhout
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 36,20 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9780755634170
Author : M. D. Walhout
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 36,20 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9780755634170
Author : M.D. Walhout
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 50,79 MB
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0755634160
Edward Said, the famous Palestinian American scholar and activist, was one of the twentieth century's most iconic public intellectuals, whose pioneering and – to some – controversial work on Orientalism shaped Middle Eastern and postcolonial studies and beyond. But how exactly did he arrive at his famous maxim to 'speak truth to power'? This dual biographical study examines the lives of Edward Said and the eminent Lebanese philosopher and diplomat Charles Malik, a distant relative 30 years his senior whom Said knew from childhood as “Uncle Charles.” To Said, Malik was no ordinary relative; in his memoir, he called Malik “the great negative intellectual lesson of my life”, and was to describe him as “an ideal as I was growing up” only to later claim Malik “went through an ugly transformation that I could never come to terms with”. M.D. Walhout charts the development of these two remarkable figures, reconstructing in the process the way in which American power in the Middle East came to have a defining effect on Arab intellectuals in the twentieth century. Exploring issues of religion and nationalism, Walhout shows how Said came to reject much of what Malik stood for: Christian faith, hardline anti-Communism and the benign nature of American power. He argues that the example of Malik was instrumental in the development of Said's later belief that the true vocation of the intellectual was not to compromise with power, but to resist it.
Author : M.D. Walhout
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 39,68 MB
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0755634152
Edward Said, the famous Palestinian American scholar and activist, was one of the twentieth century's most iconic public intellectuals, whose pioneering and – to some – controversial work on Orientalism shaped Middle Eastern and postcolonial studies and beyond. But how exactly did he arrive at his famous maxim to 'speak truth to power'? This dual biographical study examines the lives of Edward Said and the eminent Lebanese philosopher and diplomat Charles Malik, a distant relative 30 years his senior whom Said knew from childhood as “Uncle Charles.” To Said, Malik was no ordinary relative; in his memoir, he called Malik “the great negative intellectual lesson of my life”, and was to describe him as “an ideal as I was growing up” only to later claim Malik “went through an ugly transformation that I could never come to terms with”. M.D. Walhout charts the development of these two remarkable figures, reconstructing in the process the way in which American power in the Middle East came to have a defining effect on Arab intellectuals in the twentieth century. Exploring issues of religion and nationalism, Walhout shows how Said came to reject much of what Malik stood for: Christian faith, hardline anti-Communism and the benign nature of American power. He argues that the example of Malik was instrumental in the development of Said's later belief that the true vocation of the intellectual was not to compromise with power, but to resist it.
Author : Hisham Bashir Sharabi
Publisher :
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 33,13 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Arab countries
ISBN :
Author : Fouad Ajami
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 37,4 MB
Release : 2009-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0307484033
From Fouad Ajami, an acclaimed author and chronicler of Arab politics, comes a compelling account of how a generation of Arab intellectuals tried to introduce cultural renewals in their homelands through the forces of modernity and secularism. Ultimately, they came to face disappointment, exile, and, on occasion, death. Brilliantly weaving together the strands of a tumultuous century in Arab political thought, history, and poetry, Ajami takes us from the ruins of Beirut's once glittering metropolis to the land of Egypt, where struggle rages between a modernist impulse and an Islamist insurgency, from Nasser's pan-Arab nationalist ambitions to the emergence of an uneasy Pax Americana in Arab lands, from the triumphalism of the Gulf War to the continuing anguished debate over the Israeli-Palestinian peace accords. For anyone who seeks to understand the Middle East, here is an insider's unflinching analysis of the collision between intellectual life and political realities in the Arab world today.
Author : WALHOUT MARK
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 35,21 MB
Release : 2020-01-30
Category :
ISBN : 9781788314411
Author : Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 26,65 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN :
Leading scholars discuss ideology and hotly contested post-structuralist theory.
Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 35,26 MB
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317254317
The volatile Middle East is the site of vast resources, profound passions, frequent crises, and long-standing conflicts, as well as a major source of international tensions and a key site of direct US intervention. Two of the most astute analysts of this part of the world are Noam Chomsky, the preeminent critic of U.S, foreign policy, and Gilbert Achcar, a leading specialist of the Middle East who lived in that region for many years. In their new book, Chomsky and Achcar bring a keen understanding of the internal dynamics of the Middle East and of the role of the United States, taking up all the key questions of interest to concerned citizens, including such topics as terrorism, fundamentalism, conspiracies, oil, democracy, self-determination, anti-Semitism, and anti-Arab racism, as well as the war in Afghanistan, the invasion and occupation of Iraq, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the sources of U.S. foreign policy. This book provides the best readable introduction for all who wish to understand the complex issues related to the Middle East from a perspective dedicated to peace and justice.
Author : Jens Hanssen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 39,85 MB
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1107193389
Cutting-edge scholarship on post-war Arab intellectual history that challenges conventional thinking about authoritarianism, religion and revolution in the modern Middle East.
Author : Kanan Makiya
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 23,82 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393311419
Hailed as one of the most important books ever written on the state of the modern Middle East, this brave and controversial work confronts the rhetoric ofArab and pro-Arab intellectuals with the realities of political brutality in the Arab world.