Enlightenment on the Eve of Revolution : : The Egyptian and Syrian Debates / / Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab.
During the two decades that preceded the 2011 revolutions in Egypt and Syria, animated debates took place in Cairo and Damascus on political and social goals for the future. Egyptian and Syrian intellectuals argued over the meaning of tanwir, Arabic for "enlightenment," and its significanc...
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART I. CAIRO
- ONE. Secularist, Governmental, and Islamist Tanwir Debates in Egypt in the 1990s
- TWO. The Deconstruction of the 1990s Egyptian Tanwir Debates by Egyptian Critics at the Turn of the Millennium
- PART II. Damascus
- THREE. Tanwir Debates in Syria in the 1990s: The Sisyphean Moment
- FOUR. Tanwir and the Damascus Spring at the Turn of the Millennium: The Promethean Moment
- Conclusion: Tanwir as Political Humanism
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index