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The articles collected in this book fall under what is commonly called a “life’s harvest.” At a certain point in life, anticipating death, a writer finds himself drawn to his “old notebooks,” as they are also called, to discard what he believes is no loss to lose, and to preserve what is worthy of remaining after him, even if only for a limited time.
It may have occurred to George Tarabishi that some of these articles he preserved deviated in their content from the well-trodden paths, even bordering on heresy. Heresy in Christian theology is equivalent to innovation in Islamic jurisprudence and theology. Perhaps it is precisely here that the paradox of the writer’s existential and professional condition lies.
Returning to the content of these articles, we find they range from politics and literature to translation, religion, and more. Below is a presentation of some of their titles: The Problematic Nature of Democracy in the Arab World; The Seeds of Secularism in Islam; Who Killed Translation in Islam?; The Impossible Arab Philosophy; The Image of the Other in the Arabic Novel; From Criticizing the Other to Self-Criticism in Suleiman Fayyad’s “Voices”; The Intellectual and the Fall of Marxism; The Arab Self and Its Narcissistic Wound: A Return to the Problematic Nature of Tradition and Modernity in Arab Culture, etc.
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