(Where are the Arabs going?) A book representing the vision of thirty Arab thinkers issued by the Arab Thought Foundation in Beirut

(Where are the Arabs going?)
A book representing the vision of thirty Arab thinkers issued by the Arab Thought Foundation in Beirut
Presentation: Dr. Moustafa El-Abdallah Al Kafry
Where are the Arabs going?" The title of a book issued by the Arab Thought Foundation in Beirut represents the special issue of the series of books "Maaref" issued monthly by the Foundation, the book includes the vision of thirty Arab thinkers from different intellectual, political and ideological affiliations, to know their opinions on the future of the Arab world and the Arab knowledge gap, and the possibility of an alternative Arab project, from regional´-or-international projects. The book also discusses the fears and turmoil raised by religious, sectarian and ethnic diversity and the view/solution to such an issue.
The book came in 491 pages of large pieces entitled "Where are the Arabs going? The vision of thirty thinkers in the future of the Arab revolutions." Suleiman Abdel Moneim, Secretary-General of the Arab Thought Foundation, wrote the introduction and included a summary of what was included in the book under the title "This Legitimate Book". He said: "This is a book on "The Building", a cognitive project in "Meaning", and an attempt to read the Arab future in "Meaning". It is therefore more than just a book. It is closer to a cognitive testimony that includes the vision of thirty prominent Arab thinkers on the questions of Arab transformation. We are therefore facing a testimony about the present and the future as well. In this testimony, whether we like it´-or-not, we also evoke the past).
Suleiman Abdel Moneim added: "The Arab present has produced a crisis of confidence experienced by the Arab self. This crisis has manifested itself in recent years due to two factors:
The first factor - the Iraqi case, starting from the foreign invasion, the occupation and the internal conflict, which almost amounted to civil war. "However, it is noticeable that the Iraqi situation and the simultaneous incidents of violence in other Arab countries were only a necessary phenomenon of doubt among Arabs since the beginning of talk about the new Middle East project. It is a project that contains a lot about spreading democracy, freedoms and human rights, but it is lined with unmistakable intentions and references regarding Arab geopolitics and the situation of minorities within this geography. "It seemed paradoxical that the Arab countries, which once longed for unity and integration, became worried about their internal borders and Qatari sovereignty, thus lowering the ceilings of national dreams and aspirations as much as increasing Qatari fears and concerns."
The second factor - "the crisis of confidence that the Arab self-suffers from, it seems to be represented by the thundering globalization movement, which is tossed every morning with its manifestations and cross-border tools. The immediate and free flow of information, whether on the Internet´-or-through satellite channels and traditional means of dissemination, was an opportunity for Arabs to learn about the wide cultural gap that separates them from the West and from some of the Asian powers that have imposed their presence on the world stage."
The book combines the methodology of questionnaire and rooting for ten questions addressed to thirty Arab thinkers and experts on the most important political, cultural, social and cognitive issues and challenges sweeping the Arab countries, which culminated in the outbreak of the events of the so-called Arab Spring.
Arab intellectuals co-authored the book and answering the question: Where are Arabs going? They:
(Ebtisam Al-Ketbi, Salah Fadl, Fahmi Jadaan, Ahmed Ibrahim Al-Faqih, Tariq Mitri, Laila Sharaf, Jamal Khashoggi, Abdelilah Belkeziz, Mohammed Al-Rumaihi, Jihad Al-Khazen, Abdul-Hussein Shaaban, Mohieddin Amyour, Hassan Hanafi, Abdulsalam Al-Masdi, Murad Wahba, Haidar Ibrahim, Ali Omlil, Mustafa Al-Fiqi, Radwan Al-Sayed, Ali Harb, Maan Bashour, Suleiman Al-Askari, Ali Fakhro, Michel Kilo, Al-Sayed Yassin, Omar Kosh, Hani Fahs, Saleh Al-Mana, Faleh Abdul-Jabbar and Hisham Nashaba) .
It is useful to identify the areas of agreement and differences in the intellectual references and visions of these thirty Arab thinkers that express all colors of the Arab political and cultural spectrum... They reflect liberal, leftist, Islamist and pan-Arab currents, which are largely prevalent in the Arab world today. The combined visions of these thirty "provide us with an integrated interpretation of the issues of the Arab current and its transformations.

Prof. Dr Moustafa El-Abdallah Al Kafry
Faculty of Economics – Damascus University
Book:
(Where do the Arabs go? The vision of 30 thinkers about the future of the Arab revolutions) .
Edited by: Suleiman Abdel Moneim
Publisher: Arab Thought Foundation
Number of pages: 491 pages

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