TweetOppenheimer and The Treason of the Intellectuals! History taught us that Intellectuals mostly commit treasons because they can easily justify them, from those who stood against revolutions in France to those who stood against revolutions in Arab Spring. Those intellectuals justified wars, supported kings and dictators, and counter-revolutions. The French essayist Julien Benda, in an essay published in 1927, “La Trahison des clercs,” is an attack on the intellectual corruption of the age. Thanks to such men, Benda wrote, “Humanity did evil for two thousand years but honored good.”. However, our modern civilization slipped to honor hatred, nationalism, and racism, when man now substituted action over the idea, and success…
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THE AMERICAN WHO DATED EGYPTIAN MOVIE STAR LUBNA ABDELAZIZ..لبني عبد العزيز
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EGYPTIAN ACTOR KHALED ABOL NAGA DEBUT AT GUTHRIE THEATER!
Tweet Excerpts about the play From Guthrie :: A story of identity and belonging It’s Christmas Eve in New York City, and Noura — a newly minted U.S. citizen — is preparing to host an Iraqi meal and growing more homesick by the minute. Her husband and son have fully embraced their American names and identities, but Noura feels restless and displaced. Even so, she eagerly welcomes her dinner guests until secrets are revealed and the evening begins to unravel. Inspired by Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, this brilliant new play is a poignant exploration of motherhood, marriage and identity in modern America. Three things to know Playwright Heather Raffo, whose…
