Ajami's complaint

From: Jerusalem Post | Date: June 4, 1998| Author: Barry Rubin | Copyright information


Jerusalem Post

06-04-1998

'Cultures often stubbornly refuse to look into themselves; they retreat into the nooks and crannies of their history, fall back on the consolations they know."

That is the tragedy of Arab intellectual life today, as portrayed compellingly in Fouad Ajami's brilliant new book, The Dream Palace of the Arabs.

I'd long thought Ajami - born in a Lebanese village near the Beaufort castle and now a professor at Johns ...

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