false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173749315m/322838.jpg 322838 1 <B>A passionate meditation on contemporary Arab identity.</B><BR><BR><I>Being Arab</I> 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. <I>Being Arab</I> 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. 313547 9 10 2006 Being Arab total:16|5:5|4:9|3:2|2:0|1:0| 16 67 29 4 4 0 false false Sun Feb 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 21 17:34:11 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 16:41:17 -0800 2009 Very interesting book on the current situation of the Arab world and Arab identity; a call for reflection and examination

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