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Twenty years ago, it would have been Edward Said. It\u2019s Traboulsi, his best translator, in 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Amal Ghandour<\/h4>\n

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Why one, I wondered? One Middle Eastern public intellectual, TMR asked. The most inspired and relevant, they specified. I quickly counted at least four of them as interpreters of my life. All inspired and relevant. I waited a minute; another three followed.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A stunning history of Lebanon over five centuries.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But if Jean-Paul Sartre\u2019s definition of the intellectual as a \u201ctechnician of practical knowledge\u201d holds true (and it is TMR\u2019s own cue), then Fawwaz Traboulsi exemplifies it. The sum of this 82 year-old sage is a decades-long remarkable union between implacable activism on the leftist front and the solitude of the pen. The pen as creator, as translator, as storyteller, as scholar, as analyst, as advocate, six vocations like feisty sisters in a boisterous house.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s the range and depth of Traboulsi\u2019s intellectual quests that astound as well. There is no clear connection \u2014 that I can see at least \u2014 between his work and what obsesses many of us today, from the mystique of social media and its influencers to the seriousness of Artificial Intelligence and its consequences, but he is a master of contexts, old and new, and there is no real shape to the here and now without those.<\/span><\/p>\n

But perhaps it\u2019s the rigor of Traboulsi\u2019s intellect and its accessibility that makes him my obvious choice. There is ideological anchor but no dogma in this man. He is forever contemporary, forever keen to engage across generations and aisles.<\/span><\/p>\n

Twenty years ago, it would have been Edward Said. It\u2019s Traboulsi, his best translator, in 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Visit Fawwaz Traboulsi’s Goodreads<\/a> page.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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