page_title: Saving Hope (book)
section_title: Characters
hierarchical_section_title: Saving Hope (book) / Characters
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Gamal Abdel Nasser during his second term. Photo taken in Egypt
context_page_description: Saving Hope: The Long Way to the Arab Spring is a 2013 non-fiction book by Bahraini cultural critic Nader Kadhim. Written in Arabic, it is the ninth book by Kadhim, who works as a Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Bahrain. Written in two stages, before and during the Arab Spring, the book discusses this wave of protests from two sides; the past and the future. The past is divided into three waves, each of them corresponding to an era of hope and aspiration. First is the enlightenment wave, followed by the revolutionary wave and finally the democratic wave. The author then tackles the Arab Spring and argues that it is not the time for celebration, but an important station in the long way towards democracy.
  The book was positively received by reviewers in several Bahraini media outlets such as Al-Wasat, Al Ayam and al-Bilad. In addition, the pan-Arab Al-Hayat and Kuwaiti Al Rai newspapers gave it favorable reviews. There were mild criticisms for the book, mainly concerned with its scope. Every critic thought it should have expanded more on a certain aspect.
context_section_description: For each wave, the author cites a number of characters as its thinkers and intellectuals.
  The enlightenment wave of hope:
  Rifa'a al-Tahtawi (1801–1873)
  Butrus al-Bustani (1819–1883)
  Hayreddin Pasha (1820–1890)
  Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani (1838–1897)
  Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi (1855–1902)
  Muhammad Abduh (1849–1905)
  Shibli Shumayal (1860–1917)
  Qasim Amin (1863–1908)
  Shakib Arslan (1869–1946)
  Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed (1872–1963)
  Farah Antun (1874–1922)
  Salama Moussa (1887–1958)
  Ali Abdel Raziq (1888–1966)
  Taha Hussein (1889–1973)
  The revolutionary wave of hope:
  Sati' al-Husri (1882–1968)
  Muhammad Naguib (1901–1984)
  Ruhollah Khomeini (1902–1989)
  Abul A'la Maududi (1903–1979)
  Sayyid Qutb (1906–1966)
  Ahmad Shukeiri (1908–1980)
  Constantin Zureiq (1909–2000)
  Michel Aflaq (1910–1989)
  Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi (1914–1999)
  Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918–1970)
  Anwar Sadat (1918–1981)
  Salahuddin al-Munjid (1920–2010)
  Mohamed Hassanein Heikal (b. 1923)
  Frantz Fanon (1925–1961)
  Nadeem al-Baitar (b. 1925)
  Yasin al-Hafiz (1930–1978)
  Sadiq Jalal al-Azm (b. 1934)
  Mahdi Amel (1936–1987)
  Abdullah Yusuf Azzam (1941–1989)
  The democratic wave of hope:
  Khair el-din Haseeb (b. 1929)
  Al-Habib Jinhani (b. 1934)
  Mohammed Abed al-Jabri (1936–2010)
  Saad Eddin Ibrahim (b. 1938)
  Khaldoon al-Naqib (1941–2011)
  Wajih Kawtharani (b. 1941)
  Al-Taher Labib (b. 1942)
  Ali al-Kanz (b. 1946)
  Elias Khoury (b. 1948)
  Mohamed El-Sayed Said (1950–2009)
  Azmi Bishara (b. 1956)
  Amani kandil
  Larbi Sadiki
  Abdennour Benantar
  Baqir al-Najjar
caption: Gamal Abdel Nasser was a main figure in the revolutionary wave of hope
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