Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. PART I. CAIRO
6. ONE. Secularist, Governmental, and Islamist Tanwir Debates in Egypt in the 1990s 11
7. TWO. The Deconstruction of the 1990s Egyptian Tanwir Debates by Egyptian Critics at the Turn of the Millennium 38
8. PART II. Damascus
9. THREE. Tanwir Debates in Syria in the 1990s: The Sisyphean Moment 83
10. FOUR. Tanwir and the Damascus Spring at the Turn of the Millennium: The Promethean Moment 126
11. Conclusion: Tanwir as Political Humanism 149
12. Notes 157
13. Bibliography 191
14. Index 215