Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875 29 April – 5 May 2004 – Issue No. 688 (Interview) Francis Fukuyama, of “End of History” renown, speaks to Ezzat Ibrahim, in Washington, of his views on the Bush administration’s Middle East policy and the American tendency to confuse universalism with self-interest You support the “preventive […]
This year’s Erasmus Prize, which is endowed with € 150,000, goes to Sadik Al-Azm, Fatema Mernissi and Abdulkarim Soroush. Martina Sabra spoke to laureate Al-Azm, who currently teaches in Antwerp, Belgium. “The prize came as a huge surprise to me,” says 69-year-old Sadik Al-Azm in his office in Antwerp. His delight is plain to see. […]
Al-Jazeerah, April 22, 2004 A specter haunts the world, and that specter is Islam. This is not the Islam discoverable in the pages of the Qur’an and life of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), but a mythical Islam that is the product of the new form of anti-Islamism that Yossi Klein Halevi, writing in the Los Angeles […]
Erasmus Prize 2004 awarded to Sadik Jalal Al-Azm, Fatema Mernissi and Abdulkarim Soroush The Patron, H.R.H. Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, and Board of the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation, have decided to award the Erasmus Prize 2004 to Sadik Jalal Al-Azm (Syria), Fatema Mernissi (Morocco) and Abdulkarim Soroush (Iran). The Erasmus Prize is awarded annually […]
Published in the Journal of Iranian Research and Analysis, Vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 141-148, April 2004. Abdul Karim Soroush, Naghdi va daramadi bar tazaad-e dialectiki [A Critique and a Prologue to Dialectical Contradiction], Serat cultural Institute Publishing, Tehran, 1994. Soroush harshly assaults the traditional dialectic methodology, and he argues that its use can be […]
