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كيف صاغ الكواكبي سؤال النهضة وكيف حدّد سبب الفتور في حال الأمة؟! المشهد الثقافي والفكري الراهن لا يقل مأساويةً واضطراباً عن نهاية القرن ال19 ( د. طه جابر العلواني ) كيف تقوّمون المشهد الثقافي العربي الراهن؟ وهل استطاع المفكّر العربي أن يتغلّب على أسئلة وسجالات سلفه في نهاية القرن التاسع عشر ومطلع القرن العشرين، أم أنّه لمّا يزل يكرّر ذاته عبر إعادة إنتاج تلك الاستفهامات من دون أن يلج عتبة الإبداع والتأسيس؟! هذا السؤال طرحته مجلة "الحوار" في عددها الصادر في مطلع العام 1999، وأجاب عنه المفكر الإسلامي الراحل الدكتور  طه جابر العلواني  ( 4 مارس/آذار 1935 - 2016 ) في إطار جوابٍ فكري شامل، نقتطف منه الآتي: الواقع العربي الراهن واقع مأساويّ، والحقائق الموضوعيّة التي تحيط به لا تسمح بإزاحة دواعي اليأس وعوامل الإحباط من طريق العقل والنفس، والمفكّر ابن بيئته لا ينفصل عنها حتى لو اتجه نحو اللاانتماء لا سمح الله. والأمّة القطب التي تكوّنت وتشكّلت بنور هداية القرآن المعجز الخالد تعيش حالة أزمة حقيقية لم يعد جانبها البرّاني إلا أخفّ جوانبها. أمّا جانبها الجوّاني فهو قاتم

SBU Chief Sergey Gritsak (L), Arkady Babchenko (M) and Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Yury Lutsenko (R). © Valentyn Ogirenko / Reuters 'Assassinated' journalist Babchenko alive, Kiev accuses Russian intelligence of murder plot The reported killing of Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko on Tuesday in Kiev was actually a ruse played by the Ukrainian law enforcement to prevent a planned hit, the Ukrainian authorities said. Reporting on the high profile case on Wednesday, the head of the SBU, Ukraine’s national security service, Sergey Gritsak said Babchenko was alive and unhurt. READ MORE:  ‘Season finale twist’: Twitter in shock after ‘assassinated' journalist Babchenko emerges alive He claimed that the SBU had information about a planned assassination attempt on the journalist and acted to derail the plot. “I want to congratulate his family, all of us and the entire world, which is watching it, and congratulate Babchenko with a third birthday,” Gritsak wrot

Jewish boy in Tunisia (AFP) A rare look at the lives of Jews in Tunisia Maayan bin Hamo An Israeli journalist joined a mission of rabbis to Tunisia on a rare visit and documented the lives of the world's oldest Jewish communities "Jews have lived more than 2,500 years in a life of pride, and about 1,200 Jews still maintain the ancient Jewish tradition, even though they live in an Islamic environment," said journalist Yair Cherki, who visited the Jewish community in Tunisia. In Jerba, where most of the Jews live in Tunisia, my partner met Rabbi Chaim Beitan, the chief rabbi of Tunisia, and accompanied him on a trip to the old synagogue and saw the Torah books he had kept for hundreds of years. Although there are no diplomatic relations between Tunisia and Israel, the Islamic authorities remain interested in maintaining a good relationship with the minorities of the Jewish community that remained in Tunisia. My partner joined the European Rabbis' Mission, which t

Moses’ Father-in-Law: Kenite or Midianite? Cementing political alliances in the Ancient Near East through common genealogy. Dr. Rabbi Zev Farber Jethro and Moses, watercolor by James Tissot,   1896-1900.  In traditional New Guinea society, if a New Guinean happened to encounter an unfamiliar New Guinean while both were away from their respective villages, the two engaged in a long discussion of their relatives, in an attempt to establish some relationship and hence some reason why the two should not attempt to kill each other.—Jared Diamond,  Guns, Germs, and Steel,  271-272 Introduction: A Story without an Ending The Israelites pause from their wilderness travel at Mount Sinai for a long stay. They arrive at the mountain in Exodus 19, and they do not pick up to start marching again until Numbers 10. At this point, the travel log is interrupted by a conversation between Moses and his father-in-law (חֹתֵן), Hovav son of Reuel. [1]     י:כט  וַיֹּ֣אמֶר מֹשֶׁ֗ה לְ֠חֹבָב