Enlightenment

ByMelanie Magidow

  Check out this interview with German scholar Angelika Neuwirth on enlightenment in Arabic and Islamic cultures ! Some highlights: On Enlightenment: “The claim that Islam lacks an Enlightenment is an age-old cliché. Pride in the Enlightenment–even though this pride has died down somewhat–continues to lead people to believe that Western Culture is way ahead…

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Literature

ByMelanie Magidow

My academic training is in Arabic literature. By literature, I don’t mean written materials alone. I mean instead the manipulation of language in all of its various forms (whether stories, poems, rhymes, etc.) to reach an audience–expressing feelings, communicating experiences, asking questions, offering advice, and so on. When I first studied in Morocco, I had to…