false 185559 0 0 322838 1844670996 9781844670994 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173749315m/322838.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/322838.Being_Arab 4.19 16 A passionate meditation on contemporary Arab identity.

Being Arab is a brilliant exploration on what Samir Kassir describes as the "Arab malaise," the political and intellectual stagnation of the Arab world. In searching to understand how the region arrived at this point Kassir turns to the past, revisiting the Arab "golden age," the extraordinary nineteenth-century flowering of cultural expression that continued into the twentieth as, from Cairo to Baghdad and from Beirut to Casablanca, painters, poets, musicians, playwrights and novelists came together to create a new, living Arab culture. Investigating the huge impact of modernity on the region, and the accompanying shockwaves that turned society upside-down, Kassir suggests that the current crisis in Arab identity lies in the failure to come to terms with modernity, instead embracing false solutions such as pan-Arabism and Islamism. Being Arab is a clarion call, urging Arabs to confront their own history, to reject Western double standards and Islamism alike, and to take the future of the region into their own hands.]]> 185559 4.22 18 4 3915066 2213029806 9782213029801 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3915066.Histoire_de_beyrouth 5.00 1 185559 4.22 18 4 7076255 274275248X 9782742752485 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7076255-consid-rations-sur-le-malheur-arabe 4.00 1 185559 4.22 18 4 7076259 2286019053 9782286019051 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7076259-histoire-de-beyrouth 0.0 0 185559 4.22 18 4 7076260 389930151X 9783899301519 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7076260-das-arabische-ungl-ck 0.0 0 185559 4.22 18 4 7076257 2742758976 9782742758975 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7076257-liban 0.0 0 185559 4.22 18 4 3147983 0.0 0 0 7076256 2742774335 9782742774333 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7076256-consid-rations-sur-le-malheur-arabe 0.0 0 185559 4.22 18 4 1684477 2865374998 9782865374991 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1186847389m/1684477.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1684477.La_guerre_du_Liban_De_la_dissension_nationale_au_conflit_regional_1975_1982 0.0 0 185559 4.22 18 4 1684475 2905448024 9782905448026 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1684475.Itineraires_de_Paris_a_Jerusalem_La_France_et_le_conflit_israelo_arabe 0.0 0 185559 4.22 18 4