The Peculiar Destinies of Arab Modernity

Dr. Faisal Darraj Arab Art Histories: The Khalid Shoman Collection, 2013 Translated from the Arabic by Anna Swank If European modernity was a project left uncompleted (as German philosopher Jürgen Habermas would have it), then Arab modernity is a project crippled since birth. The former was rooted in intellectual, scientific and industrial revolutions that accelerated … Continue reading The Peculiar Destinies of Arab Modernity