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Teaching Plato in Palestine: Can Philosophy Save the Middle East?

By Carlos Fraenkel
In the Arab Quarter of Jerusalem. Photo David Marcus
Dissent Online also features an online-only interview with Sari Nusseibeh. - editors

CAN PHILOSOPHY SAVE the Middle East? This, I learn from a friend upon arriving in Israel in February of 2006, is the thesis of Sari Nusseibeh, not only a prominent Palestinian intellectual and the Palestinian Liberation Organization’s former chief representative in Jerusalem, but by training a philosopher (and, I think, by nature, too). “Only philosophy” the friend quotes him as saying at the Shlomo Pines memorial lecture he gave in West Jerusalem three years before. Six months later, when I return to Montreal, I’m almost convinced that he’s ri...

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