Title: In this Arab time : the pursuit of deliverance /
Authors: Ajami, Fouad.; Herbert and Jane Dwight Working Group on Islamism and the International Order.
Publisher: Hoover Institution Press,
Year: 2014
Subjects: HISTORY Middle East General.; Civilization, Arab; Arab countries Politics and government; Middle East Politics and government
Abstract: In this collection of bold and wide-ranging essays, Fouad Ajami offers his views on the Middle East, commenting on the state of affairs in Iraq, Iran, Syria, Egypt and more. He brings into focus the current struggles of the region through detailed historical standpoints and a highly personal perspective. The author discusses such landmark past events as the Algerian civil war, the state of the Arab world shortly after 9/11, and the pan-Arab awakening that began in 2011, as well as current events such as the Syrian rebellion and the repercussions of its brutal response from Bashar al-Assad. In.
Contents: Foreword / John Raisian -- In memoriam : our magus / Charles Hill -- Introduction : a world foreshadowed -- The Arab awakening, 2011 : the year of living dangerously -- The honor of Aleppo : a Syrian novel and a Syrian revolution -- The sorrows of Egypt -- The secular inheritance -- The sentry's solitude : Pax Americana in the Arab world -- The making of a hijacker : the banal lie and barbarous deeds of a 9/11 terrorist -- Writing Iraq -- The furrows of Algeria -- The traveler's luck : V.S. Naipaul's misunderstanding of Islam -- The humanist in the alleys : Naguib Mahfouz, 1911-2006 -- The making of strangers : Muslims, Jews, and the other 1492.