Reflections on the role of Arab intellectuals in Mahjar: Hisham Sharabi and Halim Barakat

This meeting is held for the purpose of contemplating self-knowing and knowing the Other. If self-knowing requires a form of separation, knowing the Other requires something of its opposite; of communication, a deep empathy. Man, on this level is both “knowing” and  “coming to know”. With this in mind a number of Arab intellectuals and writers have been selected, ones which we

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