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February 26, 2015

Abdelwahab Meddeb: The Malady of Islam (8)

The Malady of Islam by Abdelwahab Meddeb translated from the French by Pierre Joris and Charlotte Mandell (8th installment) P A R T II A Genealogy of Fundamentalism 17 In 750 the Abbasids unseated the...

Arab Culture / Essays / History / Islam / Islamic Fundamentalists / Translation

February 25, 2015

Abdelwahab Meddeb: The Malady of Islam (7)

The Malady of Islam by Abdelwahab Meddeb translated from the French by Pierre Joris and Charlotte Mandell (7th installment) P A R T II A Genealogy of Fundamentalism 14 In a text published a few...

Arab Culture / Cultural Studies / Essays / Intellectuals / Islam / Islamic Fundamentalists / Translation / Uncategorized

February 24, 2015

Abdelwahab Meddeb: The Malady of Islam (6)

The Malady of Islam by Abdelwahab Meddeb translated from the French by Pierre Joris and Charlotte Mandell (6th installment) P A R T II A Genealogy of Fundamentalism 12 The movement that tried to take...

Arab Culture / Cultural Studies / History / Intellectuals / Islam / Politics / Translation

February 23, 2015

Abdelwahab Meddeb: The Malady of Islam (5)

The Malady of Islam by Abdelwahab Meddeb translated from the French by Pierre Joris and Charlotte Mandell (5th installment) P A R T II A Genealogy of Fundamentalism 9 To throw light on the genesis...

Arab Culture / Palestine / Poetry

February 22, 2015

A Visit to Mahmoud Darwish’s Grave

On a recent trip to Ramallah, we went to pay homage at Mahmood Darwish’s grave. It is no doubt the most amazing poet’s grave (plus museum) I’ve visited — fascinating to see the existence of Palestine...

Arab Culture / Cultural Studies / Islam / Islamic Fundamentalists / Translation

February 19, 2015

Abdelwahab Meddeb: The Malady of Islam (4)

The Malady of Islam by Abdelwahab Meddeb translated from the French by Pierre Joris and Charlotte Mandell (4th installment) 7. We have to acknowledge the flourishing of Islamic Fundamentalism and the global dimension it assumed....

Arab Culture / Cultural Studies / Islam / Islamic Fundamentalists / Translation / Uncategorized

February 18, 2015

Abdelwahab Meddeb: The Malady of Islam (3)

The Malady of Islam by Abdelwahab Meddeb translated from the French by Pierre Joris and Charlotte Mandell (3rd installment) 4. If we look simultaneously at science, the state of technology and the state of the...

Arab Culture / Cultural Studies / Intellectuals / Islam / Islamic Fundamentalists / Translation / Uncategorized

February 17, 2015

Abdelwahab Meddeb: The Malady of Islam (2)

The Malady of Islam by Abdelwahab Meddeb translated from the French by Pierre Joris and Charlotte Mandell (2nd installment) 2. The Islamic world has been unceasingly inconsolable in its destitution. It knew one very high...

Arab Culture / Cultural Studies / Intellectuals / Islam / Islamic Fundamentalists / Translation

February 16, 2015

Abdelwahab Meddeb: The Malady of Islam (1)

The Malady of Islam by Abdelwahab Meddeb translated from the French by Pierre Joris and Charlotte Mandell (French edition published by Editions Seuil in 2002 English edition [o.p.] published by Basic Books in 2003) Table...

Arab Culture / Islam / Islamic Fundamentalists / Translation

February 13, 2015

The Malady of Islam

Two days ago, this Romanian review (extract below) of my & Charlotte Mandell (under the name Ann Reid)’s 2003 translation of Abdelwahab Meddeb’s The Malady of Islam, published on 2/10/15, came to my attention. Yesterday I had news...