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Arabian essays This page intentionally left blank Arabian essays Ghazi A. Algosaibi R OU Routledge TLEDG Taylor & Francis Group E LONDON AND NEW YORK First published in 1982 by Kegan Paul International Ltd This edition first published in 2009 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 270 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © G. A. Algosaibi 1982 Transferred to Digital Printing 2009 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN10: 0-7103-0019-0 (hbk) ISBN13: 978-0-7103-0019-5 (hbk) Publisher's Note The publisher has gone to great lengths to ensure the quality of this reprint but points out that some imperfections in the original copies may be apparent. The publisher has made every effort to contact original copyright holders and would welcome correspondence from those they have been unable to trace. Contents Preface vii 1 On poetry and poets 1 2 A view of education 6 3 Arabs and Western civilization 11 4 So what do you think will happen? 18 5 On bribeocracy 23 6 King Faisal's foreign policy 26 7 The philosophy of university education 37 8 Open letter to Dr Henry Kissinger 42 9 Dialogue about myself 48 10 A short and quite imaginary story about a bureaucrat 53 11 By the way . . . 60 12 The new map of the world 63 13 Is there a place for poetry in the Arabs' twentieth century? 70 14 The minister and the administrative challenge 82 15 The crisis of modern Arabic poetry 98 16 The new Arab world 112 This page intentionally left blank Preface What follows are not formal essays. Mostly they are talks I've given to people who know me best as a poet, minor academic, and major bureaucrat. They also know me as someone unable to resist an invitation to talk about anything. Most of these talks have been to Saudi Arabian audiences, and speak from an Arab point of view – whether about poetry, edu- cation, or the social problems of a rapidly developing environ- ment. While the reader should keep this in mind, I hope that these essays may prove interesting as one man's perspective from his vantage point in the Middle East. If you find the essays somehow incomplete or my assertions far from proved, you may infer, correctly, that I enjoy the challenges of being provocative and polemical more than presenting perfectly balanced ideas. Logic and useful ideas may on occasion, of course, co-exist. But such co-habitation, exceedingly rare, tends to en- courage cerebral quietness, when nowadays adventurous thinking may be of a far greater value. This page intentionally left blank For those who disagree
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