Cosmopolitanism, Identity and Authenticity in the Middle East

Cosmopolitanism and the Middle East; cosmopolitanism - assumed alienation; from an Islamic upbringing to a cosmopolitan perspective - a personal odyssey; from localism to cosmopolitanism - a Bahreini perspective; the cultural impact of the Left in Syria and Palestine - a personal view; the modernization of Islam or the Islamization of modernity; Islamism - modernization of Islam or Islamization of knowledge; Islamic movements and authenticity - barriers for development; authenticity, modernity and the Islamist movement in Tunisia; towards an objective, relative and rational Islamic discourse; universality, modernity and identity - the case of Morocco; cosmopolitanism and cultural specificity - the case of Jordan; the Egyptian national identity and pan-Arabism - variations and generations; cosmopolitanism and cultural autarky in Egypt.