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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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Sonja Hegasy

Sonja Hegasy is a researcher working on the project ‘Power and Continuity in a Muslim Monarchy’ at the Centre for Modern Oriental Studies in Berlin. Her PhD on state and civil society in Morocco was published by Deutsche Orient-Institut in 1997.

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Fear and loathing: Arab cultures need a strategy of resistance

Concerned by the Arab world’s culture of victimhood, a German Arabist issues a vigorous challenge to the prevailing sentiment of ‘anti-globalism’ among the Arab intelligentsia, typified by the prominent Egyptian intellectual Sherif Hetata.

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