Via Maris ·
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Crisis
By Hussein Aboubakr MansourHow the myth of crisis imprisoned Arab (and leftist) political thought.
Arab World
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Response ·
How Islamism Took Over the Middle East
By Ze'ev Maghen, Hussein Aboubakr Mansour, and Bernard HaykelThree experts on Arab and Islamic thought discuss the ideas that have mired the Middle East in grievance, instability, and authoritarianism
Response ·
Today’s Jihadism Uses Ancient Vocabulary, but Its Ideas Are Modern
By Hussein Aboubakr MansourIslamists absorbed the ideas of Fanon and Foucault from the air around them.
Response ·
Jihadism Is a Modern Philosophy, but Its Islamic Roots Run Deep
By Daniel SonnenfeldMansour risks swinging too far in the wrong direction.
Observations ·
Mourning Fouad Ajami
By Michael DoranNobody could match him as an interpreter of the Arab Middle East—or as a deft and witty scourge of his academic opponents.
