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Articles of the author Awatef Abdel Rahman
The Arab intellectual crisis
A critical reading of the history of Arab thought during the past two decades reveals a missing or perhaps even a deliberately concealed truth, which is that this body of thought has been the victim of ideological affiliations that have exerted such (...)

27 - 11 - 2019
African media in the information age
President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi's recent meeting with a delegation of trainee African journalists brought to mind the leading role Egypt used to play on the African continent, in the main based on components set out below. The first component of this (...)

27 - 02 - 2019
African media in the information age
President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi's recent meeting with a delegation of trainee African journalists brought to mind the leading role Egypt used to play on the African continent, in the main based on components set out below. The first component of (...)

21 - 02 - 2019
Climate change and environmental justice
The Earth's climate is currently subject to various risks, but unfortunately too much of the public and too many in official circles in the Arab world still lack an awareness of the dangers threatening it. Scientifically speaking, climate change has (...)

25 - 01 - 2019
Climate change and environmental justice
The Earth's climate is currently subject to various risks, but unfortunately too much of the public and too many in official circles in the Arab world still lack an awareness of the dangers threatening it. Scientifically speaking, climate change (...)

17 - 01 - 2019
Youth and consumer culture
The revolution in information and communications technology has been a major push for the world capitalist economy. Multinational companies and the international financial institutions have been the main entities that have benefitted from the (...)

14 - 01 - 2019
Youth and consumer culture
The revolution in information and communications technology has been a major push for the world capitalist economy. Multinational companies and the international financial institutions have been the main entities that have benefitted from the (...)

03 - 01 - 2019
Saving the world's languages
When a language dies, its death is final. The rapid extinction of languages has serious repercussions for human history. It results in the impoverishment of our cultural heritage and the loss of a large amount of information that represents an (...)

03 - 11 - 2018
Saving the world's languages
When a language dies, its death is final. The rapid extinction of languages has serious repercussions for human history. It results in the impoverishment of our cultural heritage and the loss of a large amount of information that represents an (...)

01 - 11 - 2018
Arabs and the future
There has been a tremendous leap forward in future studies in the various social, political, economic and environmental fields, and governments across the world have increasingly come to rely on the analyses and forecasts of dozens of specialised (...)

04 - 10 - 2018
Media democracy crisis
A gainst the backdrop of the impetus given to democratising forces in the world unleashed by the revolution in information and communication technology, the Arab world experienced a new wave of primarily outward, top-down political plurality. This (...)

22 - 11 - 2017
Echoes of revolution
I am used to visiting my village of Al-Zarabi in the hills to the west of Assiut in Upper Egypt at the beginning of every academic year, as well as on feasts and family occasions. However, after the 25 January Revolution I was preoccupied and so was (...)

09 - 08 - 2016
The media, Islam and the West
Today, a dangerous campaign against Islam is being waged by the Western media. There is a consensus that Islam represents a threat to Western civilisation. Like the red menace of the Cold War era, the green peril (green being the colour of Islam) is (...)

16 - 05 - 2016
Thoughts on the crisis of the Arab elite
When we look closely at the history of Arab thought over the last two centuries we run up against an invisible, unspoken, but ever-present fact: this thought fell prey to ideologies that held sway over the Arab intellect, leading us to read our (...)

03 - 03 - 2016
Glimpses of the future
With the region in flux, the relative shift of power from despotic governments to their nations, rather than ushering in a period of stability and prosperity, has added uncertainty to an already seething scene. The barrier of fear that had taken (...)

02 - 02 - 2016
The importance of Afro-Arab ties
Efforts by Arab and African officials to boost Arab-African relations, in light of regional and international developments, call attention to the importance of the cultural dimension of this relationship. Cultural interaction between Arab and (...)

19 - 01 - 2016
Reforming Egypt's failing media
The Egyptian public and cultural and academic circles concerned with the crucial issues and the future of their society have grown increasingly angry at the state of anarchy in the media. It has begun to threaten the security of society politically, (...)

13 - 01 - 2016
The Egyptian media crisis
Although the ceiling of media freedoms was raised, and the activity of government and private media during the revolution augmented, the media has fallen into crisis due to the unsteady pace of the revolution. Organised, serious and continued (...)

12 - 06 - 2013
Reclaiming the state media
State media is an asset of the nation and must be reformed to fall in line with public sentiment and the aspirations of all Egyptians, writes Awatef Abdel-Rahman* In the Nasserist period, the Egyptian media served almost exclusively as an organ of (...)

26 - 01 - 2012
Announcing Arab civil society
If courageous media is absent, and if civil society organisations don't take media seriously, the society will not be able to protect the weak, writes Awatef Abdel-Rahman* In the last few years, a new term emerged in the Arab world -- "civil (...)

15 - 02 - 2007
Information mirage
The repetition of the mantra of information has exceeded real achievements in development, writes Awatef Abdel-Rahman* For the past few years, Arab governments have been using the term "communication" in everything having to do with culture, (...)

23 - 02 - 2006
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