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ELITE VOL.1, Issue 56, june 2023
ELITE
VOL.1, Issue 56, june 2023

2. You have important writings on the relationship I had to be interested in the Arab-Israeli
of the Arab world with Turkey on the one hand, and conflict, and the truth I wrote about it more
the development of the Arab conflict with Israel on than once, my first book "Manifestations of the
the second... How do you assess the situation of political mind and the future of the Arab
these issues for the Arab world? system", which I had produced it immediately
The experience with Turkey was a happy after the signing of the Oslo Accords, in light of
experience, Prof. Dr. Ahmed Youssef was the the escalation of political scenarios such as: the
director of the Institute of Arab Research and interaction of normalization, the Gulf money
Studies at the time, and I wrote this book in 1998, triangle, the Jewish mentality, Egyptian labor,
at the moment when Necmettin Erbakan, the and the big Middle Eastern dreams, so I wrote
symbol of the Islamic awakening, and the fierce that book and warned against being drawn into
warrior against extremist Turkish secularism, he that dream, calling it a false dawn, and I also
had the experience of the being the prime minister talked about the future of the Arab regime,
with Tansu Çiller and this experience was aborted including the three most tragic scenarios in the
in what looks like a white coup; by dismissing him event of drift, and perhaps the worst of them are
from the presidency of the government by those
military orders, accordingly, I decided to write a
book dealing with the Islamic awakening in
Turkey at this moment, and I addressed Prof. Dr.
Ahmed Youssef, informing him of the idea, and
he welcomed it clearly, so that he set me a date to
be published in the last issue of 1998, but it came
to light in 1999. At that time I had read a share of
philosophy, and I was associated with Hegel for a
while, and therefore I embarked, in an idea
similar to fiction, to employ Hegel's dialectical
approach to the Turkish case, the Turkish case
and how it moves from the old negative Turkish
identity (Ottoman) to the opposite, which is
radical secularism as a violent reaction to the old
violent Ottoman formula, and I predicted that
there will be reconciliation between the two
parties until a moderate Islam grows that carries
liberal features, and I wrote that book and Dr.
Ahmed Youssef was enthusiastic about it, it was
published quickly, and it remained in my office
for two years until one of my friends spoke to me:
"Why not submit it to the State Incentive
Award?" Indeed, I began to believe in his speech
and presented it, and thanks to God, it was
crowned with the State Encouragement Award,
despite being my second book, and this was my
experience with Turkish affairs. As for the Arab-
Israeli conflict, I classify myself as an Arab
nationalist intellectual, I love Gamal Abdel
Nasser and his experience, even if he found some
reservations regarding freedoms or the Egyptian
political administration system, but automatically
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