TY - BOOK AU - Safouan,Moustafa TI - Why are the Arabs not free?: the politics of writing SN - 9781405161718 PY - 2007/// CY - Malden, MA PB - Blackwell Pub. KW - Arab countries KW - Intellectual life KW - 20th century KW - Politics and government KW - Civilization, Arab N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 96-97) and index; Foreword / by Colin MacCabe -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Components of Western dominance -- Questions that have been forgotten in our political philosophy -- Creative transmission and stagnant transmission: culture and power -- Peoples and writers -- The role of language in the creation of culture -- Writing and power -- The fraud of the Islamic state -- Further reading -- Index ER -