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We often hear about the radical statements and fatwás of Muslims and about uncompromising Christian or secular activists who can appeal to populist sentiments and mistrust of the ‘other’.
This paper expands upon earlier work published in Arab-West Report by Dutch Arabists Eildert Mulder and Thomas Milo on the contested earliest sources of Islam.1 Mulder and Milo illustrate that critical scholarship has cast doubt on the historic
The article is an overview of the book "Maxime Rodinson Between Islam and the West. Interviews with Gerard D. Khoury.” The overview concentrates on the questions that reflect the philosophy of Rodinson concerning the relation between Islam and the West.
The article touches upon the reasons Maxime Rodinson believes are behind the Arab-Islamic civilizational backwardness. It concludes that it is wrong to say that Arabs and Muslims should put their religion and identity aside if they want to be civilized, as there is no specific race or religion that...
Poet Ahmed Abdel-Mo’ti Hegazi criticizes the fact that Maxim Rodinson’s book about the Prophet Muhammad will not be taught at AUC, as it defames the Prophet. He asked people to enjoy literature instead of censoring it.
Maxime Rodinson died last week at the age of 89. Unfortunately, no one has written enough about this author who produced dozens of books objectively tackling the Arab-Israeli conflict. Although he was himself a Jew, this led Israel to accuse him of being anti-Semitic.
Maxime Rodinson died last week at the age of 89. Perhaps this is the opportunity to defend the French Orientalist from Arab accusations and the subsequent marginalization of his role and works. While Cairo protested his book about the Prophet Muhammad thirty years ago, the Beirut publishing house...
The new Orientalism now uses mainly anthropological methods in interpreting classical texts, and employs sociological methods in interpreting contemporary phenomenon. We lack access to Western studies of classical topics as well as contemporary issues. However severely we criticize what others...
This is not just an interview. It is an attempt to break the silence and conspiracy over Nasr Hamed Abu-Zeid being sent into exile. How long will Nasr Abu-Zeid remain in exile? Who has benefited from changing an intellectual and researcher into a "cultural refugee"? Why does his leaving Egypt now,...
The American University in Cairo warned a student she may be dismissed after she decided to wear the niqab and they prevented her from attending her classes. The student said that the administration of the University did not try to find a midway solution with her and just took this arbitrary...

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