Arabic-L:LIT:Al-Adab Summer Issue

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1) Subject: Al-Adab Summer Issue

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Date: 17 Aug  2004
From: kidriss at cyberia.net.lb Kirsten Scheid
Subject: Al-Adab Summer Issue

 Al-Adab’s Summer issue is out

Arab Censorship (4); Rebuilding Arab Marxism; Honderich on Palestinian  
“Terrorism”; Memoirs of a Palestinian Prisoner; Bardot and Islam;  
Modernity and its Discontents; Resistance in Iraq; “Reviving Civil  
Society” in Syria; Who Killed Farajallah al-Helou?

Articles
Munir Shafiq (Palestine/Jordan) discusses problems that face Iraq under  
occupation and after, and dwells on the differences between civil  
resistance, collaboration, armed resistance, and criminal acts.

  Riad Zahreddine (Syria) criticizes the “new liberal Syrians” operating  
under the rubric “Reviving Syrian Civil Society.”

  45 years after the murder of the Secretary-General of the Lebanese  
Communist Party Farajallah al-Helou, a communist intellectual  
dissident, George Haddad (Lebanon/Bulgaria), revisits the crime and  
points to suspects both in the Arab world and abroad.

  Abd al-ilah Bilqazziz (Morocco) discusses how modernity infringed on  
“pre-modern” societies, despite its previous calls for humanism.

  Salameh Kileh (Palestine/Syria) attempts a general outline towards  
rebuilding an Arab Marxist movement.

Interview
In an exclusive interview with al-Adab, Professor Ted Honderich, a  
British moral philosopher, talks about Palestinian  
“liberation-terrorism” in 1967 Palestine, universal ethics, and  
“neo-zionism.”

Book Review
Jean Tannous (Lebanon) writes about Brigitte Bardot’s new book, Un Cri  
dans le Silence, following the French Court’s verdict accusing this  
French actress of racial hatred.

Memoirs
Suha al-Barghouthi (Palestine), a long-time activist, writes about her  
long days in Al-Maskoubiyyah prison in Jerusalem.

File
Arab Censorship (4)

  Faysal Darraj (Palestine/Syria) writes about censorship and “extended  
censorship,”  whereby society censors itself.  Izz al-Din al-Manasrah  
(Paletine/Jordan) talks about the different ways to kill a book.  
Adaniyya Shibli (Palestine) concentrates on auto-censorship in  
Palestinian Media. Rana Idriss (Lebanon) and Andre Gaspar  
(Lebanon/London) write about the censorship confronting publishing  
houses. Jum’a al-Hilfi (Iraq) remembers how “party censorship” changed  
his course of his life.

Stories
Elias A. Muhammad (Iraq), Nasser Rabbat (Syria/USA), and Naji Zaher  
(Palestine).

Poems
Hussein A. Ahmad (Egypt), Bahija M. Idilbi (Syria), Rita Odeh  
(Palestine), Abd al-salam b. Idriss (Morocco), Abdelrahim al-Khassar  
(Morocco), Abd al-salam al-Zaytouni (Morocco).

Editorial
Samah Idriss (editor-in-chief, Lebanon) laments the erosion of reading  
in Arab culture.
    


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the magazine going!

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