Most recent articles by Samir Grees
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An Interview with the Egyptian Author May TelmissanyFor Secularism and Civil Society
In order not to leave the field open to fundamentalists, numerous Egyptian activists and intellectuals have expressed their commitment to the establishment of a civil and secular state. The author May Telmissany is among them. An interview by Samir Grees
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The Merit Publishing House in Cairo
A Mecca for Intellectuals, a Centre of the Revolution
The Merit publishing house was only founded in 1998, but quickly assumed a key role in the country's political opinion making. Samir Grees visited the Merit offices and spoke to founder Muhammad Hashim
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Essay Samir Grees
Translations as Caricatures of the Arab World?
In view of some intellectuals in the Islamic world the writings selected for translation from the Arabic serve to foster clichés of the distant and mysterious East. Why such mistrust is based on false perceptions.