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Arab Lessons
Rubin, Andrew | March 23, 1998 issue

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The article focuses on the book "The Dream Palace of the Arabs: A Generation's Odyssey," by Fouad Ajami. Ajami's cachet is that he is the only Arab-American expert to appear with any real frequency in the national media. He echoes the kind of anti-Arabism that both Washington and the pro-Israel lobby have come to embrace. Ajami's latest book "The Dream Palace of the Arabs," is a benign effort to redeem himself. The book lyrically recounts the lives and work of a generation of Arab authors who challenged traditional forms of Arab literature and thought after 1948. Ajami chronicles a generation's growing disenchantment with the viability of what he calls "the secular political idea" and "the dream of progress and modernity."

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DREAM Palace of the Arabs: A Generation's Odyssey, The (Book); AJAMI, Fouad; ETHNOLOGY -- Arab countries; AUTHORS, Arab; ARABISM; ISRAEL
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