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Article: `DREAM PALACE' AN INTIMATE EFFORT TO EXPLAIN ARAB SOCIETY'S EVOLUTION.(Lifestyle)(Review)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- February 23, 1998
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Fouad Ajami, who teaches Middle Eastern Studies at Johns Hopkins University, has for years distinguished himself for his scholarship and commentary on the Arab world.
His new book, ``The Dream Palace of the Arabs,'' focuses on the Arab writers and intellectuals of the past two generations - Ajami's own and the one preceding his - who strove to forge an Arab awakening through poetry and fiction. The writers themselves vary enormously, but all of them in one way or another have, like the statesmen, politicians and tyrants they observed, mirrored the Arab experience itself.
Ajami, borrowing from T.E. Lawrence, uses the phrase ``dream palace'' as a metaphor ...