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Material Type: | Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Samir Kassir |
ISBN: | 9781844672806 1844672808 |
OCLC Number: | 854711137 |
Notes: | The Arabs are the most wretched people in the world today, even if they do not realize it -- A deep sense of malaise permeates every corner of the Arab world -- The Arab malaise is a period of history and it is now more acute than it was before -- Modernity was not the cause of the Arab malaise -- The Arab malaise is not the result of modernity but of modernity's collapse -- The Arabs' malaise is more a function of their geography than their history -- The worst aspect of the Arabs' malaise is their refusal to emerge from it, but, if happiness is not in sight, some form of equilibrium at least is possible. |
Description: | xiii, 96 Seiten ; 20 cm |
Other Titles: | Considérations sur le malheur arabe. |
Responsibility: | Samir Kassir ; translated by Will Hobson ; with an introduction by Robert Fisk. |
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Abstract:
A passionate meditation on contemporary Arab identity.
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"This is an unusual book of such fluent and searing honesty that I almost wanted Samir Kassir to be kinder to himself. I salute his memory. " - John Pilger "One of Lebanon's most prominent journalists and one of the most vociferous and bravest critics of the Syrian regime. " - Robert Fisk Read more...
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