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Syrian Poet Adonis criticizes Arab Society (2006)

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Adonis talk @ Dubai TV

The poet Ali Ahmad Sa'id (b. 1930), known by his pseudonym "Adonis," a 2005 candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature, left his native Syria for Lebanon in the 1950s following six months' imprisonment for political activity. In 1973, he received his Ph.D. from St. JosephUniversity in Beirut; in 1985, he settled in Paris, where he now works as a writer and literary critic. Among other occupations, he has edited the modernist magazine Mawaqif (Viewpoints), and translated some of the great French poets into Arabic.


Adonis Adunis Arab Society Islam Reforms Democracy memritv Secularism ادونيس العلمانية اصلاحات العالم العربي الاسلامي اسلام سوريا علي احمد سعيد
Middle East Moyen Orient Laicite Reformes Syria Palestine Algerie Maroc Tunisie Lebanon Liban http://www.memritv.org/ Jordan Kuwait Bahrain Qatar Egypt Egypte United Arab Emirates UAE Maghreb لبنان
الاردن الكويت الامارات البحرين قطر المغرب تونس

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  • A great arab intellectual, all like minded arabs shouldn't be afraid, we need more such people inside the arab world to make in change in the sad situations and change the current paradigms and political discourse...

  • كلام عظيم

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  • Unfortunately he is the ghost at the feast.

  • Rawdhat al-Wa`aizin, no. 17

    The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘The knowledgeable man is superior to the [mere] worshipper by seventy degrees, the distance between two degrees spanning the gallop of a horse for seventy years; and this is because Satan plants an innovation amongst people which the knowledgeable man notices and prohibits, whilst the worshipper attends to his worship neither taking any notice of it nor recognising it.

  • Adonis ...Needs Nobel Prize

    Why is not given???

  • @GHILAN1990 رسالته التنوير في منطقة مظلمة ونائمة في سبات عميق

  • @GHILAN1990 واجبه ان يعارض اي دولة او فلسفة شمولية ومنها الدولة الدينية لأنها دائما ستأتي بالاستبداد

  • @perty34 عيب الكلام الطائفي

  • @chechensky You can't eradicate religion nor is it necessary or morally acceptable to do so. What is needed is to separate religion from state, and at the same time uphold the freedom of religion with individuals.

  • @Shinkowawa You misunderstood him. What he means is that he will oppose the religious state because it's based on a contradiction that would only lead to tyranny. His premise is that any totalitarian form of government leads to tyranny should be opposed. Islamic state is based on totalitarian ideology, which will inevitably result in tyranny, therefore, it should be opposed and he will oppose it for moral reasons.

  • god bless you

  • "Sono contro ogni ingerenza estera nelle questioni arabe: se gli arabi sono incapaci d'arrivare ad esser democratici da soli, non lo diventeranno grazie a qualcun altro": oggi più che mai, di nuovo in guerra, tali considerazioni hanno valore di verità irrefutabile. Ogni parola, ogni pensiero di questo grandissimo poeta mondiale (perché è tale, avendo studiato in Europa pur mantenendo salde radici mediorientali) è oro colato... E notate bene il sospiro sconsolato dell'intervistatore a 5'08''...

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