essays by Arab and Muslim writers in defense of free speech /
[Anouar Abdallah [and others].
New York :
G. Braziller,
1994.
302 pages ;
22 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
Why is it necessary to defend Salman Rushdie? / Anouar Abdallah -- On the subject of Rushdie / Etel Adnan -- Even the sun -- / Adonis -- The Rushdie affair in France / Farid Ac̈houn -- Is the fatwa a fatwa? / Sadik J. Al-Azm -- Rushdie, the traitor / Aziz Al-Azmeh -- Escaping from both "organized" oppression and "diffuse" oppression / Bouland Al-Haïdari -- Concerning repression, liberty, and the affirmation of the right to be different / Eduard Al-Kharrat -- Night / Omar Amirallay & Mohammed Mallas -- Concerning the Rushdie affair / Mahshid Amir-Shahy -- Appeal of Iranian artists & intellectuals -- Back to the Rushdie affair once more/ Mohammed Arkoun -- Freedom / Aïcha Arnaout -- Rushdie on the edge of the abyss between East and West / Liana Badr -- The sanctification of the patriarchate : outline of a theory of intolerance in religion and family / Halim Barakat -- The metaphors for God / Salim Barakat -- The combat between the demon and fire / Abbas Baydoun -- Hello, Salman Rushdie / Riad H. Beïdas -- Theft of fire / Tahar Bekri -- The end of an illusion / Rabah Belamri -- The target of the fatwa / Murat Belge -- The liberty of the word / Emna Belhadi Yehyia -- Islam and literature / Jamel Eddine Bencheikh -- Verse of the mirrors / Mohammed Bennis -- Rushdie, or the textual question / Fethi Benslama -- New human illness : fictionalizing Salman Rushdie and his critics / Reda Bensmaïaa -- Bring open to the imaginary / Zhor Ben Chamsi -- For Rushdi / Tahar Ben Jelloun -- Respect for freedom / Khédija Ben Mahmoud Cherif -- Mourning, sorrow! / Latifa Ben Mansour -- Literary form / Mohammed Berrada -- Concerning a memory : of a photo of Salman Rushdie, with eyes as if painted in a miniature, and with his right hand raised to his lips / Kamal Boullata --The transformation of the past / Abdesselame Cheddadi -- For Salman Rushdie / Andrée Chedid -- They want me dead / Mahmoud Darwish -- It's time to reverse the condemnation of Salman Rushdie / Hichem Djaït -- The solitude of King Salomon / Assia Diebar -- Tatou / Hanan El Cheikh -- Concerning Salman Rushdie : notes for a project of secularization -- Driss El Yazami -- Asselman / Ahmed Esssyad -- Against / Nabile Farès -- Exile / Safa Fathi -- A point of view on the ordeal of Salman Rushdie / Soleiman Fayyad -- For Rushdie / Djaial Gandieih -- Behiya / Moncef Ghachem -- Our neighbor Salman Rushdie / Karim Ghassim -- Sheikh Bedreddin / Nidim Gürsel -- No one among us can wash his hands of this friend's blood / Émile Habibi -- For Rushdie / Mohammed Harbi -- And also for them / Jamil Hatmal -- Twilight on the city wall / Ahmed Hegazi -- Practices of another time / Fereydoun Hoveida -- For Rushdie / Sonallah Ibrahim --For Salman Rushdie / Adil Jasouli -- The Adam of a free liberty / Salim Jay -- An open letter to Salman Rushdie, or 1,001 reasons to admire him/ Kadhim Jihad -- Ballad, or the Fatwa of the masters / Hélène Kafi -- The words of poets and wandering minstrels -- The hidden side of the Rushdie affair / Ramine Kamrane -- Letter to Salman Rushdie / Khemaïs Khayati -- So be it / Michel Khleifi -- The writer and the story / Elias Khoury -- The clock / Abdellatif Laabi -- Chaos / Bahauddeen Latif -- For Rushdie / Amin Maalouf -- Returning to a state of law / Chamille Mansour -- Waiting for another community / Abdelwahab Meddeb -- Traps / Misska -- The prey / Abdel Rahman Mounif -- How to read The Satanic verses / Sami Naïr -- [etc.].
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For Rushdie contains the first collection of texts by Arab and Muslim writers from Maghreb to the Middle East, from Iran, Turkey, from Bangladesh, and the former Soviet Union, who express their support for both Rushdie and the right to free expression. This collection represents an unprecedented political act. Not content merely to shed new light on the Rushdie affair, this work opens a free space for communication.
Several writers pointedly draw attention to the threats and accusations suffered by many intellectuals today at the hands of religious extremists. Several recall the murders of the Egyptian writer Farag Fouda last year and the Algerian writer Tahar Djaour in May, while others warn of the deepening confrontation between secular freedoms and Islamic fundamentalism. Many of the writers themselves have been forced into exile. Many draw attention to the reactions in the West to Rushdie's case. All condemn the violence now associated with the repression of free speech.