Table of Contents
Editorial
Abier Bushnaq
German
Ibn Rushd’s Contribution to the Improvement of Arab Women’s Right
Dr. George Tamer
Arabic
Moslems in Secular state: From Civil Rights to Social Commitment
Heiner Bielefeldt
Arabic
New Secularism in the Arab World
Ghassan F. Abdullah
English
Criticism of Civilisation in the Arabic Literature of the 19.th Century, Ahmad Faris ash-Shidyaq
Abier Bushnaq
German
Mahmoud Darwish on the Occasion of the 53th Anniversary of the Nakba
Mahmoud Darwish
Arabic German
Geographies of the Self: Text and Space in Anton Shammas’s Arabesques
Christian Szyska
English
The Liberation of Women is the Liberation of Men
Balkis Hamid Hasan
Arabic
This is the Colour of my Skin A Poem
by Balkis Hamid Hasan
Arabic
Enough for Me A Poem
by Fadwa Touqan
English
- New Secularism in the Arab World
العربية Deutsch If you like it, share it!By Ghassan F. Abdullah(*) A major movement of secular writing in Arabic has been gaining strength and depth over the last fifteen years, little reported by outsiders.1 It is going into new directions, well beyond a mere reaction to Islamic fundamentalismwhich grew mostly afterKhomeini took over in Iran… Read more: New Secularism in the Arab World - Enough for Me
العربية Deutsch If you like it, share it!Enough for me to die on her earthbe buried in herto melt and vanish into her soilthen sprout forth as a flowerplayed with by a child from my country.Enough for me to remainin my country’s embraceto be in her close as a handful of dusta sprig of grassa… Read more: Enough for Me - Geographies of the Self: Text and Space in Anton Shammas’s Arabesques*
العربية Deutsch If you like it, share it!Christian Szyska After its publication Anton Shammas’s Galilean family saga Arabeskot set in motion intense debates among literary critics about the Jewishness of Hebrew literature. [1] The interest among the general public for this semi-autobiographical novel of an Arab Israeli has been accompanied by ongoing scholarly debate.[1] All… Read more: Geographies of the Self: Text and Space in Anton Shammas’s Arabesques*