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The Arab Awakening
The Arab Awakening
Oct 6, 2024 8:22 PM

Author:Tariq Ramadan

The Arab Awakening

Tariq Ramadan is one of the most acclaimed figures in the analysis of Islam and its political dimensions today. In The Arab Awakening he explores the opportunities and challenges across North Africa and the Middle East, as they look to create new, more open societies. He asks: can Muslim countries bring together Islam, pluralism and democracy without betraying their identity? Will the Arab world be able to reclaim its memory to reinvent education, women's rights, social justice, economic growth and the fight against corruption? Can this emancipation be envisioned with Islam, experienced not as a straitjacket, but as an ethical and cultural wealth?

Arguing that the debate cannot be reduced to a confrontation between two approaches - the modern and secular versus the traditional and Islamic - Ramadan demonstrates that not only are both of these routes in crisis, but that the Arab world has an historic opportunity: to stop blaming the West, to jettison its victim status and to create a truly new dynamic. Tariq Ramadan offers up a challenge to the Middle East: what enduring legacy will you produce, from the historic moment of the Arab Spring?

Reviews

Tariq Ramadan is a Muslim Martin Luther

—— Washington Post

One of the most important innovators for the twenty-first century

—— Time

The work of Tariq Ramadan will take its place in the annals of Islamic thought

—— Le Monde Diplomatique

Close in stature to Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear in his command of the profound art of nonsense

—— Guardian

Milligan is the Great God to all of us

—— John Cleese

The Godfather of Alternative Comedy

—— Eddie Izzard

That absolutely glorious way of looking at things differently. A great man

—— Stephen Fry

Manifestly a genius, a comic surrealist genius and had no equal

—— Terry Wogan

A totally original comedy writer

—— Michael Palin

Potent ... journalism of a high order. Like all good reporters, Burke is something of a scholar, drawing meticulously on interview notes years old, and on extensive background reading. He excels, too, in describing the experiences of ordinary Muslims; such insights make this book essential for understanding the past decade

—— Sherard Cowper-Coles , Sunday Times

Toni Morrison is not just an important contemporary novelist but a major figure in our national literature.

—— New York Review of Books

Powerful, sparse prose

—— Vogue

Compelling...brief but intense...Morrison writes with her usual lyricism

—— Literary Review

It is beautifully, sparely written, as with all Morrison's work, and lingers in the mind long after the final page is turned

—— Sunday Express

Spare and visual…a writer of consummate.

—— Times

Pulsing with imaginative energy, it displays Morrison’s veteran ability to combine physical and social immediacy with psychological and emotional subtlety. A fine addition to Morrison’s expansive chronicling of black American history, Home is a compact triumph.

—— Sunday Times

A highly fractured tale intended to resemble the crumbling nature of Money’s existence post war. Nothing is over-laboured. Each word resounds with sultry, heat-oppressive Georgia.

—— Spectator

Morrison's writing is so deft that even barely sketched characters leap off the page

—— Sunday Telegraph

Home is a powerful reminder of the impact the past plays on the present

—— The Times

Morrison can say more in one word than most novelists manage in an entire book. Superb

—— Glasgow Sunday Herald

Bursting with poetic language and horrific events this is a penetrating insight to the African-American experience

—— The Lady

It is a powerful set-up, building suspense and a mounting sense of anxiety

—— Guardian

Toni Morrison’s mesmerising prose manages to be both elegiac and visceral at the same time

—— Mail on Sunday
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