O caldeirão árabe
Entenda um pouco da confusão do Oriente Médio neste ótimo artigo de Charles P. Freund, na Reason. Clique no trecho para ler todo o texto.
Sex, Politics, Religion, and Egypt - Want to know how complicated the Mideast can be? Go to the movies (Charles Paul Freund)
Look, it's genuinely heartening that the Middle East's liberals are organizing themselves, demonstrating against their suffocating regimes, issuing manifestos, and otherwise working for reform. The same is true for those exasperated Arab liberals who have been writing angry articles and essays in the region's press and online denouncing the desiccated pathologies of Arabism. These are courageous people who deserve admiration and support. There is clearly a long-term effort under way to loosen the Arabist stranglehold that has been paralyzing the region's political discourse since at least the days of Gamal Abdul Nasser.
But if you want to know how complicated it can be to address the region's social and political issues while navigating its sensitive cultural context, you have to put down the op-ed page and make a quick trip with me to the movies. This summer, an exceedingly controversial Egyptian film entitled B'heb al Sima (I Love Movies) finally opened in Cairo. That film attempted to mix sex, politics, and religion, with the result that its completion has been delayed for years due to a combination of budget and censorship problems. Now that it's out, the controversies swirling around it have only become ever more complex.
Entenda um pouco da confusão do Oriente Médio neste ótimo artigo de Charles P. Freund, na Reason. Clique no trecho para ler todo o texto.
Sex, Politics, Religion, and Egypt - Want to know how complicated the Mideast can be? Go to the movies (Charles Paul Freund)
Look, it's genuinely heartening that the Middle East's liberals are organizing themselves, demonstrating against their suffocating regimes, issuing manifestos, and otherwise working for reform. The same is true for those exasperated Arab liberals who have been writing angry articles and essays in the region's press and online denouncing the desiccated pathologies of Arabism. These are courageous people who deserve admiration and support. There is clearly a long-term effort under way to loosen the Arabist stranglehold that has been paralyzing the region's political discourse since at least the days of Gamal Abdul Nasser.
But if you want to know how complicated it can be to address the region's social and political issues while navigating its sensitive cultural context, you have to put down the op-ed page and make a quick trip with me to the movies. This summer, an exceedingly controversial Egyptian film entitled B'heb al Sima (I Love Movies) finally opened in Cairo. That film attempted to mix sex, politics, and religion, with the result that its completion has been delayed for years due to a combination of budget and censorship problems. Now that it's out, the controversies swirling around it have only become ever more complex.
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