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The Settlement
The Settlement By: Madjda Mouderres What if, as of today, humans have reached the peak of human advancement? What would you do, if you knew that the earth was on the verge of an environmental catastrophe…? The people of the West Assimilian tribe did not have that warning. But then again, they did not exist before the Great Wave. Their world started as the old one ended – over a 1000 years Post Great Wave. Welcome to The Settlement – a Science fiction novel of a time period when the human race has once again blossomed. Life has become simple – uninterrupted by the technology that led to the Great Wave’s mass destruction in the first place. But, underneath the surface of this new world, dangerous secrets simmer like an idle volcano, ready to soon erupt.
Sacred Language, Ordinary People
The cultures and politics of nations around the world may be understood (or misunderstood) in any number of ways. For the Arab world, language is the crucial link for a better understanding of both. Classical Arabic is the official language of all Arab states although it is not spoken as a mother tongue by any group of Arabs. As the language of the Qur'an, it is also considered to be sacred. For more than a century and a half, writers and institutions have been engaged in struggles to modernize Classical Arabic in order to render it into a language of contemporary life. What have been the achievements and failures of such attempts? Can Classical Arabic be sacred and contemporary at one and the same time? This book attempts to answer such questions through an interpretation of the role that language plays in shaping the relations between culture, politics, and religion in Egypt.
Why Are The Arabs Not Free?
Moustapha Safouan, in this courageous and honest book, confronts head-on the problem of Arab despotism, examining it from the point of view of political philosophy, religious argument and linguistic history. A ground-breaking book written by the eminent Lacanian psychoanalyst Moustapha Safouan. Rejects explanations of Arab despotism which appeal either to imperialism or to notions of Arab culture in favour of an analysis which focuses on the relations between writing and power. Investigates the divorce between the classical Arabic which is the medium of education and the diverse vernacular Arabics which are the languages of the streets. A tour de force of political philosophy, religious argument and linguistic history.
