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The Arab National Conference (ANC) is the prime popular Arab nationalist institution in the Arab world. Over the last three decades it has managed to reframe the Arab nationalist narrative and redefine the concept of Arab nationalism. The positions and statements of the ANC are key to the resurgence of Arab nationalism and to the understanding of events currently taking place in the Arab homeland.

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Round table seminar on Arab–Iranian relations

Ali Abdo, Abbas Assi, Talal Atrissi, Maan Bashur, Amin Hoteit ...

Contemporary Arab Affairs (2017) 10 (1): 1–31.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17550912.2016.1272225

Published: 01 January 2017

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Review: Prisoners of geography , by Tim Marshall

Ziad Hafez

Contemporary Arab Affairs (2016) 9 (3): 461–463.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17550912.2016.1190133

Published: 01 July 2016

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Review: Où va la Turquie?: Étude des mutations politiques récentes: 2000–2011 , by Fouad Nohra and Asli Ege

Ziad Hafez

Contemporary Arab Affairs (2016) 9 (2): 310–313.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17550912.2016.1154677

Published: 01 April 2016

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Review: The closing of the Muslim mind: How intellectual suicide created the modern Islamist crisis , by Robert R. Reilly

Ziad Hafez

Contemporary Arab Affairs (2016) 9 (1): 126–131.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17550912.2015.1118228

Published: 01 January 2016

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Review: Pensée et politique dans le monde arabe. Contextes historiques et problématiques, XIXe–;XXIe siècle , by Georges Corm

Ziad Hafez

Contemporary Arab Affairs (2015) 8 (3): 420–425.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17550912.2015.1053694

Published: 01 July 2015

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Review: Against our better judgment: the hidden history of how the U.S. was used to create Israel , by Alison Weir

Ziad Hafez

Contemporary Arab Affairs (2015) 8 (2): 252–255.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17550912.2015.1024919

Published: 01 April 2015

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Review: Islam in retrospect: recovering the message , by Maher Mahmassani

Ziad Hafez

Contemporary Arab Affairs (2015) 8 (1): 109–113.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17550912.2014.976402

Published: 01 January 2015

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Review: The long divergence , by Timur Kuran

Ziad Hafez

Contemporary Arab Affairs (2014) 7 (4): 595–599.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17550912.2014.952146

Published: 01 October 2014

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Review: Lebanon: A History, 600–2011 , by William Harris

Ziad Hafez

Contemporary Arab Affairs (2014) 7 (3): 455–457.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17550912.2014.930986

Published: 01 July 2014

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Some Western concepts through Arab eyes: toward a new Arab epistemology

Ziad Hafez

Contemporary Arab Affairs (2014) 7 (3): 421–436.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17550912.2014.934532

Published: 01 July 2014

Abstract

This article is a call to re-examine current Arab epistemology in behavioural sciences in order to develop an Arab grown set of tools and concepts that will contribute to the civilization renewal as promoted by the Arab Renaissance Project. In particular, some thoughts relating to debates about ‘freedom’, ‘state’, and ‘democracy’ are provided.

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