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URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/new-perspectives-hidden-cosmopolita
 nism-of-the-arab-world-a-two-part-lecture-by-ken-dorph/
SUMMARY:NEW PERSPECTIVES: HIDDEN COSMOPOLITANISM OF THE ARAB WORLD—A TWO-
 PART LECTURE BY KEN DORPH
DESCRIPTION:NEW PERSPECTIVES: HIDDEN COSMOPOLITANISM OF THE ARAB WORLD—A 
 TWO-PART LECTURE BY KEN DORPH\nSag Harbor resident and Middle East expert\
 , Ken Dorph\, will delivers a two-part lecture entitled Hidden Cosmopolita
 nism of the Arab World\, which examines the diversity of Arabs with a focu
 s on their evolving views on religious minorities and gender.\nAs Ken Dorp
 h illustrates\, the US media present an image of Europe and Israel as beac
 ons of pluralism and democracy with the Arab world narrowly summarized as 
 ISIS. Ken has spent a good deal of his life in the Arab world\, from Moroc
 co to Iraq\, and has lived the breathtaking diversity of the region. Ken w
 ill explore the surprising historical tolerance of the Arabs\, which has b
 een deeply and negatively impacted by Western intervention\, the rise of t
 he oil economy\, and the conflicts with Israel. Ken will first ask the que
 stion: What is an Arab? And will then look at the diversity of the people 
 called Arabs\, with a focus on the evolving views on religious minorities 
 and gender. Guests are left to ponder the fragility of a cosmopolitan soci
 ety\, how acceptance of diversity is undermined\, and how we can help buil
 d a more caring and cosmopolitan world.\nThursday April 20\, at 7 p.m.:\nH
 idden Cosmopolitanism of the Arab World: Part 1\nThe focus will be on the 
 position of religious minorities in the Arab world\, the ‘people of the 
 book\,’ and the overall greater tolerance in Muslim Arab societies compa
 red with Christian European. Ken is particularly interested in the experie
 nce of Jewish Arabs. He celebrated Passover in Morocco in 1972\, taught at
  the Jewish school in Tunis in 1975\, swam each Saturday with Jewish frien
 ds in Damascus in 1979\, and his closest friends in Cairo were a Christian
 -Jewish couple\, the wife among the few remaining Jews in Cairo. Ken was h
 onored to introduce Sag Harbor friend and neighbor Lucette Lagnado\, autho
 r of The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit\, to the extraordinary Jewish com
 munity of Tunisia.
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CATEGORIES:Arab
 World,Economy,Iraq,Lecture,Lecture-Performance,Lecture/Seminar,moroccan
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