Self-criticism After the Defeat

[a Devastating Critique of the Arab World's Political Stagnation by One of Its Most Revered Thinkers]

"A unique book. . . . al-Azm sought to strip Arab thought of its belief in fate and folk tales and superstition. . . . He told his people the sort of truths that outsiders are too embarrassed to tell, even when they were themselves able to see these truths."--Fouad Ajami

The 1967 War--which led to the defeat of…