Listen to my key points in this interview given on the occasion of the publication of my book ‘A Levantine Youth’.
“Those who know the foundations of the Quran understand that a whole movement within the Muslim Brotherhood seeks to return to authentic Islam. And we must be aware of this!
Secularism is a completely foreign concept in the Near and Middle East […] In Europe, the sacred has disappeared. This is why we are facing major spiritual and identity crises!”
These pivotal episodes from my youth and from History:
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my joining the radical Christian group Guardians of the Cedars in Lebanon,
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my discussions with Imam Khomeini in 1978 and 1979, who abhorred secularism and French-style universalism,
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my passionate encounters and conversations in Jerusalem in 1982 with Jews and Arabs of the city…
All to be discovered in your copy of ‘A Levantine Youth’
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