Books review of author Hisham Sharabi pdf
Hisham Sharabi is a Palestinian thinker, born in Jaffa on April 4, 1927 and died in Beirut on January 13, 2005. He wrote in the fields of philosophy, sociology and literature. Hisham Sharabi was born in Jaffa and lived his childhood between Jaffa and Acre in his grandfather's house. He studied primary school at the Friends School for Boys in Ramallah, completed his studies at the International College in Beirut, and graduated from the American University of Beirut in 1947. During his time at the American University in Beirut, he joined the Syrian Social Nationalist Party, where he was a companion of Anton. Saadeh, and after his emigration to the United States of America, he remained in charge of the branch of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party until 1955, when he withdrew from it. He immigrated to the United States of America after the execution of Antoun Saadeh in Beirut, and worked there as a professor of the history of modern European thought at Georgetown University in Washington. He continued to publish his books in English for university studies until the Six Day War in 1967, after which he moved to Beirut in 1970 and worked in The Palestinian Planning Center and a visiting professor at the American University of Beirut, but he left due to the events of the civil war in Lebanon. He contributed to the establishment of a number of institutions concerned with the affairs of the Arab world and the Palestinian cause, including the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University, the Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine in Washington, and the Al-Quds Fund, a Palestinian organization that provides scholarships to Palestinian students. He has several books, including: Introductions to the Study of Arab Society (1975), in which he dealt with: our social behavior, the structure of the family in Arab society, dependency, helplessness, evasion, awareness and change, the Arab man and the civilizational challenge, the Arab intellectual and the future. Arab Intellectuals and the West (1981) Translated into Arabic while he was in Beirut The Patriarchal System (1988) Cultural Criticism of Arab Society (1991) The Last Journey. Embers and ashes. With the signing of the Oslo Agreement between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel, Hisham Sharabi was able to visit Jaffa and was enthusiastic about the said agreement, but he soon became one of the most important opponents of it later. In 1998 he stopped working at Georgetown University and moved to Beirut, where he died on January 13, 2005 of cancer.