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100			_aAlAzm, Sadik _95770
245		0	_aSelf-Criticism After the Defeat- 1967 _c/ Sadik Al Azm; Tr: George Stergios
250			_aSecond edition; _bFirst published by Dar al Tali'ah دار الطليعة (Vanguard Press) in 1968
260			_aLondon; _bSaqi Books; _c2011
300			_a192p;
500			_aA devastating critique of the Arab World's political stagnation, after the 1967 war which lead to the defeat of Syria, Jordan and Egypt by Israel. Al-Azm was one of the few thinkers to carry out a self-assessment of Arab society, reflecting on the political and cultural faults that led to the defeat.
520			_a"The 1967 War – which led to the defeat of Syria, Jordan and Egypt by Israel – felt like an unprecedented and unimaginable disaster for the Arab world at the time. For many, the easiest solution was to shift the blame and to ignore some of the glaring defects of Arab society. Syrian philosopher Sadik al-Azm was one of the few to challenge such a view in his seminal Self-Criticism after the Defeat. Exposing the political and cultural faults that led to the defeat, he argued that the Arabs could only progress by embracing secularism, gender equality, democracy, and science. Available in English for the first time, Self-Criticism after the Defeat is a milestone in modern Arab intellectual history. It marked a turning point in Arab discourse about society and politics on publication in 1968, and spawned other intellectual ventures into Arab self-criticism. About the Author Born in Syria (1934 - 22 December, 2016) Sadik al-Azm was one of the foremost Arab intellectuals of recent decades. Since this book’s original publication in Arabic, al-Azm was to know both eminence and persecution. He was tried in Lebanon for his assault on Islamic religious dogma, and was dismissed from his position at the American University of Beirut. Many of his works are still banned in the Arab world. He was Professor Emeritus of Modern European Philosophy until 20087 at the University of Damascus and was awarded the Erasmus Prize in 2004."
546			_aEnglish
650			_aDS114-128.2 History of Asia- (Palestine)- History _95664
650			_aArab-Israeli war حرب عرب-اسرائيل _95812
650			_aZionist occupation الاحتلال الصهيوني _95813
651			_aOccupied Palestine فلسطين المحتلة _95769
700			_aDarraj, Faisal _95771
700			_aStergios, George _95814
700			_aAjami, Fouad _95772
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