Arabic: Acceptance and Anxiety

Alexander Key

Being an Arabist elicits warm acceptance in Comparative Literature in 2015, but Arabists are still in no position to advocate for the inclusion of Arabic thinkers on our departments’ theory reading lists. Why?

Arabic
Comparative Literature
Theory
philosophy
translation
Hegel

Ideas of the Decade

December 31, 2013

Fundamentalism

Mohammad Salama

Thematic questions about fundamentalism have recently proliferated in Arabic literature. One major theme is the aspiration to expose dominant religious radicalism and to win back the freedom of expression suppressed by the hegemonic ideologies of postcolonialism.

Arabic
Postcolonial
Fundamentalism
Secularism
Identity

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