Hussein A H Omar (Oxford): Arabic Thought in the Liberal Cage. Arabic intellectual history between the postwar and the postcolonial: The introduction to Arabic Thought against the Authoritarian Age: Towards an Intellectual History of the Present, ed. Jens Hanssen and Max Weiss. Nourhan Tewfik reviews The Unmaking of the Arab Intellectual: Prophecy, Exile and the Nation by Zeina G.Halabi. Orly Minazad reviews Revolution for Dummies: Laughing Through the Arab Spring by Bassem Youssef. The introduction to The Arabic Freud: Psychoanalysis and Islam in Modern Egypt by Omnia El Shakry. Mohamed Ismail Sabry (Bremen City UAS): Fascism and Nasserism: Ideological Influence or Alternative Explanations? Scott McLemee reviews Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography by Robert Irwin.
Khaled Moustafa on promoting an academic culture in the Arab world. Hannah Johnson on publishing Arabic literature in translation: Specialists cite rising interest despite challenges. The rise and fall of Egyptian Arabic: Once the lingua franca of the Arab world, Egypt’s dialect is in decline along with the country’s cultural and political leadership.
