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

that end with the dismantling of the region and in terms of challenges, not every Islamic or
that Israel becomes the first prize and the center Eastern state is on the same foot and leg if we
of action and influence, if we comply with these look at the challenges, what Egypt faces is not the
dreams. Unfortunately, something happened same as the one that stands in the way of Saudi
after that time, in which it seemed as if Israel Arabia, and enemies in Asian countries such as
was already the center of the region, although the Pakistani-Indian conflict are not generalized
this had declined in recent years, as the region to the countries of the Islamic world, so talking
exceeded this point, but before that Israel was about one Islamic world is inaccurate, but in
the destination for the Egyptians and the Gulf, general, there are issues that affect Islam with
but soon the region was able to overcome that regard to Islam - as a religion and belief - even in
crisis, and Israel remains, in my opinion, the my writings, I had a book entitled "The
biggest enemy, so that I have produced a book Universality of Islam.. A vision of existence,
entitled: "The Cave of Islamization: The Sunni- knowledge and the other", which was crowned as
Shi'aa Debate over Power, Identity, and
Violence". My biggest goal was to clarify in light
of the aberration suffered by the region to
reaffirm that Iran is an integral part of this
region and this is not the real enemy of the Arab
world and I call for dealing with it through
dialogue and containment, and Israel is the first
enemy of Egypt and the region, and I called for
a strict national response to the Israeli project,
which some are trying to market as an ally and
that the real enemy is Iranian not Israeli, so I
was obsessed with the need to confirm that Iran
is not the enemy even if there are some
differences, Israel is the enemy no matter what
agreements we have.

3. The issues of the Islamic world are an important
concern in your various contributions, in light of
our current world, how do you assess the situation
of the Islamic world, its most important problems
and its strongest potential?

I will try to clarify something simple that makes it
easier to answer this topic, the Islamic world is a
loose concept, just as the concept of the West is a
loose concept, so that if you notice in my writings
protesting against the theory of the clash of
civilizations by Samuel B. Huntington, I would
have seen this theory as an adaptive theory,
based on racism, claiming that there is a complete
West, and a complete East, describing it
succinctly, neither Western unity is a total unit,
nor Eastern unity is a total unity. When you
think about the current conflict in the first place,
it is a conflict that is not Eastern-Western, even
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