MEC Webinar 2020 Oct 16: The Dictatorship Syndrome by Alaa Al Aswany
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
- MEC Friday Webinar - Alaa Al Aswany, author of The Dictatorship Syndrome, speaking with Professor Eugene Rogan, Director, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College. This is a recording of a live webinar held on 16th October 2020, the first webinar in this academic term's series on the overall theme of Dictatorship.
Alaa Al Aswany is Egypt’s most celebrated novelist and essayist whose books are runaway bestsellers in Arabic and have been translated into more than 30 languages. His second novel, The Yacoubian Building (2002) established Al Aswany as a global literary figure. This was followed by Chicago (2007), The Automobile Club (2013), and most recently, The So-called Republic (2018).
A newspaper columnist until he was banned from publishing by the Egyptian government, Al Aswany has published a number of works of non-fiction treating on current affairs, including On the State of Egypt: What Made the Revolution Inevitable (2011), and Democracy is the Answer: Egypt’s Years of Revolution (2015). His most recent book is The Dictatorship Syndrome (2020), where he considers the conditions, signs, symptoms, and cures for what he terms the malady of dictatorship.
The study of dictatorship in the West has acquired an almost exotic dimension. But authoritarian regimes remain a painful reality for billions of people worldwide who still live under them, their freedoms violated and their rights abused. They are subject to arbitrary arrest, torture, corruption, ignorance, and injustice. What is the nature of dictatorship? How does it take hold? In what conditions and circumstances is it permitted to thrive? And how do dictators retain power, even when reviled and mocked by those they govern? In this deeply considered and at times provocative short work, Alaa Al Aswany tells us that, as with any disease, to understand the syndrome of dictatorship we must first consider the circumstances of its emergence, along with the symptoms and complications it causes in both the people and the dictator.
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Alaa is a true liberal, his Arabic discourse is unique. I hope Egyptian opposition to unite on a central path of democracy and rule of law on European principles- religion should be protected personal space and outside politics
Great symposium. Thanks
You're very welcome - I am glad you enjoyed the webinar!
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Do you know Dr. Alaa is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood
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Do you Know the role the Muslim Brotherhood in the Middle East ?
another element of suppressing alternate views is that the education system is geard towards not encouraging critical thinking.
الترجمة افادكم الله
نص الحوار مش مفهوم
لن تبلغ النضج حتى تدرك عيوب ابيك..
.. و الديمقراطية هي الحل...
... و لا ديمقراطية بدون علمانية...
..و لا علمانية بدون حرية..
.. و امها حرية المعتقد..
لكي نحقق :
ان تقول ما تفكر فيه و ان تفعل ما تقوله
Alaa is probably the best Arabic writer and political thinker above Aqad apart from Taha Hussain.. I follow his weekly broadcasts which are very informative. The dictatorship Syndrome is a unique in Egypt in particular. The deep problem is the huge network of informers in every village and every college. The current political Islam is a created in the image of dictators from Nasser to Sisi . The Wahhabism marriage to MB after 67 is a turning point
There is no mystery in why people in Egypt opted to keep the same leader in power, even after the humiliating defeat of June 1967, because they had no other choice given the totalitarian regime that was controlling their life in the last14 years prior to that debacle!
Allah will support just nation even it is infidel and defeat the unjust nation even it is beliver