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The Modernization Of Middle East Is A Sight To See

by Amir Taheri | Jul 14, 2017 | Opinion

In every age intellectuals shape and cling to one concept as the organizing principle for an understanding of the present and speculation about the future. From the end of the 1940s, as the colonial era drew to a close, the fashionable concept was “modernization” and...

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Landscapes of Iraqi Poetry: Reconfiguring the Image of Iraq in
the Arabic (and American) Lyric Canon

Myth of Centres and Margins

by Fadel al-Sultani | Aug 29, 2016 | Lifestyle & Culture

Do ranks still exist in our Arab culture as they were in the sixties and seventies? Are Cairo, Baghdad, and Beirut still the centres of that past blissful time, and are the margins that once included other Arab countries like the Gulf and Morocco, still the same? Even...

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Abu Dhabi – Moroccan critic Said Yaktin has won the Sheikh
Zayed Award in the category of “arts and critical studies”‘, the
Sheikh Zayed Book Award Foundation announced Wednesday in a statement.

Said Yaktin: Modernism is not About Imitating West

by Abdul-Kabir Al-Minawi | Jul 13, 2016 | Interviews

Marrakesh-Dr. Said Yaktin is one of the most prominent Moroccan figures who influenced the Arabic literature. He enriched the Arabic cultural scene with many novels that tackle most fields of literature like the “Analysis of Novelist Discourse” published in 1989....