Resources

Links

Alliance of Civilizations
http://www.unaoc.org/

Americans for Informed Demoncracy
http://www.aidemocracy.org/

East West Institute
http://www.iews.org/

The Middle East Centre at St. Anthony’s College, Oxford
http://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/areastudies/middle-east.shtml

Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
http://www.oxcis.ac.uk/

Remarque Institute: New York University
http://www.nyu.edu/pages/remarque/

Search For Common Ground
http://www.searchforcommonground.org

United States Institute of Peace: Muslim World Initiative
http://www.usip.org/muslimworld/index.html

World Policy Journal
http://www.worldpolicy.org/journal



Books and Articles Recommended by the Center for Dialogues’ Staff

Ben Achour, Yadh. “Nous risquons une dictature pire que celle de Ben Ali.” La Presse de Tunisie. La Presse, 2012. Web. 31 Aug. 2012. Retrieved from, http://www.lapresse.tn/31082012/54651/nous-risquons-une-dictature-pire-que-celle-de-ben-ali.html Translated by Sidra Translation Services. English translation titled “We face the risk of a dictatorship worse than Ben Ali’s” found here.

Anderson, Lisa. The State and Social Transformation in Tunisia and Libya, 1830-1980 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986). See this book>

Arkoun, Mohammed. The Unthought in Contemporary Islamic Thought (London: Saqi Books, 2002). See this book>

Bulliet, Richard, The Case for Islamo-Christian Civilization (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004). See this book >

Charfi, Abdelmajid, L’Islam entre le message et l’histoire (Paris: Albin Michel, 2004). See this book >

Charfi, Mohamed, Islam and Liberty (London: Zed Books, 2005). See this book >

Cheddadi, Abdesselam, Ibn Khaldûn : L'homme et
le théoricien de la civilisation
(Editions Gallimard, 2006). See this book >

Eickelman, Dale and James Piscatori. Muslim Politics
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996). See this book>

Garton Ash, Timothy, Free World: America, Europe, and the
Surprising Future of the West
(New York: Random House, 2004).

Gregorian, Vartan. Islam: A Mosaic, not a Monolith
(Washington D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 2003). See this book>

Hourani, Albert. The History of the Arab Peoples
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991). See this book>

Hodgson, Marshal G.S. The Venture of Islam: Conscience and
History in a World Civilization
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977). See this book>

Humphreys, R. Stephen. Between Memory and Desire: The Middle
East in a Troubled Age
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999). See this book>

Judt, Tony, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (New York: Penguin Press, 2005). See this book >

Piscatori, James. International Relations of the Asian Muslim
States
(Lanham, M.D.: University Press of America, 1986). See this book>

Sachedina, Abdulaziz. The Islamic Roots of Democratic Pluralism (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001). See this book>

Sadiki, Larbi. The Search for Arab Democracy: Discourses and
Counter-Discourses
(New York: Columbia University Press, 2002). See this book>

Taji-Farouki, Suha, ed., Modern Muslim Intellectuals and the
Qur’an
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2004). See this book >

Talbi, Mohammed and Gwendoline Jarczyk. Penseur Libre en Islam (Paris: Editions Albin Michel, 2002). See this book>

Zaman, M. Q. The ‘Ulama in Contemporary Islam: Custodians of
Change
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002). See this book>

 

Publications

Courage to Think: Intellectual Freedom in Tunisia and the Arab Spring

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Miral: A Palestinian/Israeli Dialogue On and Off Screen

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“Arab Spring” or “Arab Winter”? — An Update on the Arab Revolutions

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Recent Events

“Beyond Political Islam: The Muslim Brotherhood and the Future of the Middle East”

Lecture by Dr. Tarek Masoud
New York University’s Silver Center — Jurow Hall
March 14, 2013
Co–sponsored with the Foreign Policy Association and the World Affairs Councils of America

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“The University & the Nation: Safeguarding Higher Education in Tunisia and Beyond”

International conference
University of Manouba, Faculty of Letters, Arts and Humanities
Tunis, Tunisia
February 21 — 22, 2013

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