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...push. A year ago, a dozen prominent intellectuals who signed a petition calling for a constitutional monarchy were arrested for trying to hold a public meeting. All but three were released after pledging not to organize an opposition movement. The three who refused-a poet, an Islamist scholar and a political-science professor-are still in jail. Last week I visited their lawyer, a cautious young man named Khalid Farah al-Mutairy, who joined the case because the political scientist had been his mentor. "I was surprised when he decided not to sign the pledge," al-Mutairy said with some...
...couples who just stare at each other and just compliment each other on the fact that they're so attractive. I had this idea of a not very bright celebrity couple, but it's not about Nick and Jessica. I don't know them. They might secretly be Rhodes scholar rocket scientists...
...push. A year ago, a dozen prominent intellectuals who signed a petition calling for a constitutional monarchy were arrested for trying to hold a public meeting. All but three were released after pledging not to organize an opposition movement. The three who refused--a poet, an Islamist scholar and a political-science professor--are still in jail. Last week I visited their lawyer, a cautious young man named Khalid Farah al-Mutairy, who joined the case because the political scientist had been his mentor. "I was surprised when he decided not to sign the pledge," al-Mutairy said with some...
...renowned work, Orientalism, the scholar Edward Saïd proclaims, “the Orient was almost a Western invention.” Saïd illustrates that the misconceptions the West created about the Middle East degraded Arab society into an “other;” a diametrically opposed stranger. Presently, we seem to have many strangers in the Middle East and far fewer friends. While U.S. goals to steer Arab states towards democracy may be noble, perhaps respectfully reengaging the Arabs would heed better results than last week’s tragedy...
Jacoby grounded her argument for a more secular government in the opinions and beliefs of the founding fathers of the United States as well as such influential American thinkers as poet Walt Whitman, scholar Robert G. Ingersoll, Abraham Lincoln, and John F. Kennedy...