Albert Hourani was born the son of immigrants from South Lebanon. He studied Philosophy, Politics, Economics and History (with an emphasis on international relations)at the Magdalen College in Oxford.…
Paul-Michel Foucault was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, writer, political activist, and literary critic. Foucault's theories primarily address the relationships between power and knowledge,…
Mir Tamim Ansary is an Afghan-American author and public speaker. Ansary gained prominence in 2001 after he penned a widely circulated e-mail that denounced the Taliban but warned of the dangers of a …
Jason Goodwin's latest book is YASHIM COOKS ISTANBUL: Culinary Adventures in the Ottoman Kitchen. He studied Byzantine history at Cambridge University - and returned to an old obsession to write The Gu…
Martinique-born poet, playwright, and politician Aimé Fernand Césaire contributed to the development of the concept of negritude; his primarily surrealist works include The Miracle Weapons (1946) …
German-Jewish philosopher, political theorist and sociologist, and a member of the Frankfurt School. Celebrated as the "Father of the New Left", his best known works are Eros and Civilization, One-Dim…
Caroline Finkel is a British historian and writer based in Turkey; she has a doctorate in Ottoman history from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
Hisham Sharabi was Professor Emeritus of History and Umar al-Mukhtar Chair of Arab Culture at Georgetown University, where he was a specialist in European intellectual history and social thought. He…
ولد عبد الرحمن الكواكبي بن أحمد في عام 1854 ، وعندما بلغ السادسة من عمره توفيت والدته ، فأرسله أبوه إلى خالته بأنطاكية ، فحضنته وعلمته القراءة والكتابة واللغة التركية ، ثم عاد إلى حلب ليتابع دراسته في…
هو الامام عماد الدين أبو الفداء إسماعيل بن عمر بن كثير بن ضوء بن كثير القرشي الدمشقي الشافعي. ولد في سوريا سنة 700 هـ كما ذكر أكثر من مترجم له أو بعدها بقليل كما قال الحافظ ابن حجر في الدرر…
باحث وكاتب مغربي حاصل على شهادة الدكتوراه في الفلسفة، من كلية الآداب، جامعة محمد الخامس بالرباط. ويعمل حاليا أستاذا للتعليم العالي في المركز الجهوي لمهن التربية والتكوين/ طنجة، له مجموعة كثيرة من المق…
Alaa al-Aswany (Arabic: علاء الأسواني), Egyptian Arabic (Masri) "علاء الاسوانى" (born 1957) is an Egyptian writer, and a founding member of the political movement Kefaya.
Naguib Mahfouz (Arabic author profile: نجيب محفوظ) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. He published over 50 novels, over 350 short stories, dozens of movie scripts, and…
(Arabic Profile إدوارد سعيد) Edward Wadie Said was a professor of literature at Columbia University, a public intellectual, and a founder of the academic field of postcolonial studies. A Palestinian A…
David D. Kirkpatrick is an American, London-based international correspondent for The New York Times. From 2011 through 2015, he served as its Cairo bureau chief and a Middle East correspondent.
الرئيس اللواء محمد بك نجيب يوسف قطب القشلان سياسي وعسكري مصري، أول رئيس لجمهورية مصر بعد إنهاء الملكية وإعلان الجمهورية في، كما يعد قائد ثورة 23 يوليو 1952 التي انتهت بعزل الملك فاروق ورحيله عن مصر.
