How does the West view Arab culture? A question towards which we are impelled by the flood of accusations which Western news media are heaping on us. There is no justification for these accusations in the present time, but their roots go back to an ancient historical enmity and an existing fear towards everything Islamic.
Will a binational state be the salvation of that Holy Land from the vortex of ceaseless violence and killing. Or is it another idealistic dream on which philosophers waste their time while professional politicians reject it.
In the age of ambiguity which is prevailing over many matters, the affirmation must be repeated that those of Iraq s sensible writers and artists who are really concerned for Iraq as a country and a people must be in favor of revealing its wounds, not covering them up under any pretext.
There is a kind of reading which we do not like. We deprive ourselves of the opportunity to possess one of the most effective means of conflict management. Here is merely one example which explains that clearly. Are we paying proper attention to the present and the future if we neglect this kind of reading?
As the holy month of Ramadan comes round each year, the wheel of memory and reminders returns in the Islamic world, what was said last year is repeated, and the Islamic world activates all its religious, artistic and gastronomic machinery to receive this month. How is it received?
The history of human civilization tells us that it is not generals and warlords who bring about the real development of nations; rather, it has been and is brought about by their creative people, writers, artists, scientists, inventors and innovators. In this month there is the 92nd anniversary of the birth of a summit of creativity among the Arabs.
