"The Dream Palace of the Arabs" by Fouad Ajami

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"Fouad Ajami?s The Dream Palace of the Arabs is a tale both of a place and of a generation. It is in many ways a hagiography of the world of the Arab intellectual in the 20th century, a world lived in large measure in exile, sometimes even from within the intellectual?s native land.

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"Fouad Ajami's The Dream Palace of the Arabs is a tale both of a place and of a generation. It is in many ways a hagiography of the world of the Arab intellectual in the 20th century, a world lived in large measure in exile, sometimes even from within the intellectual's native land. It is a tale of theocracy and artistic freedom, of longing for belonging, of the passionate desire to find out who one is and why it is that one is different from both peoples in other places and from peoples in other times. This paper looks at some of the themes in this book as they are laid out in Ajami's prologue and connects these themes to other authors exploring some of the same subjects.


Ajami is writing the story of the world of ideas in which intellectual Arabs have immersed themselves - or tried to immerse themselves - during the years more or less after World War II and the..."

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