Civil society tends to become a sort of artificial reservoir for an endangered species: the democratic intellectual, protected by the international institutions
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Joan SmithJoan Smith is columnist, critic, novelist and Chair of the PEN Writers in Prison Committee. Recent articlesTightrope walks and chessboards: an interview with Gilles Kepel Gilles Kepel, the highly respected French scholar of the Arab world, visited the Institut Francais in London as the Iraq war was launched. There, he discussed his latest book, "Bad Moon Rising" - a mesmerising travelogue of encounters in Egypt, Syria, and the Gulf states in the aftermath of 9/11 - with the novelist and critic Joan Smith, who chairs the PEN Writers in Prison Committee. |
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