Simply: Forget it..!!
Intellectually: Among the 350 mln Arabs; only couple of millions granted their postgraduate degrees.. Among those, few hundreds who value the research degree as a mandate for progress rather than a tool for personal gains (the wonders of “Dr” abbreviation..!!)
Adding: Failure of civic societies, chronic divide between capitals and other cities (forget about rural..!!), lobbying as backbone of media, corrupted sociopolitics, shallow public culture and many more..
Nevertheless, the Arabic term “Mothaq’af” is unmatched in any language..Either Arabs exaggerate or underestimate the term..!!
Then, no shame to announce the absence of Arabic intellectuality..!!!
Before people get hot and excited; ask any non-Arab first..!
As correctly and wisely quoted in Sudan:
"No camel would realize the curvature of its Neck..!"
During the current Arabic events; since the 14th of Jan 2011, many of the so-called Arab Intellectuals had played low profile, speechless and/or on-a-long-sick-leave; as they discovered having nothing to feed the hungry and angry minds..!! ...
I guess one of the leading Arabic reforms should be: redefining the terms for epistemic use, and the eligibility to research, in order to avoid wasting national dreams and funds on both selfish or barren brains..
And the thing is, are they ready to acknowledge that a problem existence is the first step towards tackling it or will they just resort to defiant denial and portraying of Arabs as the chosen ones and lamentably attributing the lack of righ...t use of tools to progress as a result of the long brewing conspiracy that has been in preparation to pull apart the cohesion among arabs...
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Hisham Ed-Dai
@ Hisham.. What you explained is exactly the distances between renaissance and uprising.. between ideas and molotov.. between manifests and slogans..
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