Instead of embracing its most profound and loyal thinkers, Arab culture has a propensity to silence innovation, the late Nasr Hamed Abu Zeid being a case in point, writes Salah Salem*
Few people have the courage to go against the grain, to swim (...)
To solve the region's intractable problems, Obama should turn the shared history between Arabs and Europeans for guidance and wisdom, writes Salah Salem*
The relationship between the Arab-Islamic world and the Euro-American West is caught between (...)
The true kernel of Islamic government is not rule by experts, but self-rule by conscience. Hence the people should be primary source of authority, writes Salah Salem*
Every religion has its own genius for finding a universal meaning or value that (...)