Awareness and overcoming: on priorities and challenges facing Syria today, authored by: Dr. Aqil Saeed Mahfoud

Perhaps the most difficult moments are the most fertile, as questions and possibilities open up, the boundaries and conditions of thinking change, and patterns of response to challenges evolve. It is expected that Sorbonne alumni will pose very important and sensitive questions: Where is political thought in Syria today? And what are the trends and stances of Syrians regarding: war, refuge, religion, sectarianism, identity, the West, Israel, Turkey, Iran, Arabism, the nation-state, and of course Syria after the war? Syrians face what is happening in their country, and they need to rethink everything, and almost rebuild everything after a fierce war that destroyed their country. This book attempts to provide a reading of the Syrian event under the following titles: - Nietzsche's Frog: Epistemic Approaches to Reading the Syrian Crisis. - Nietzsche's Queens: On the Meaning of "Post-War in Syria." - Will to Life: Syrians Confronting the Values of War and Death. - Challenge and Response: What do Syrians need, and what position and challenges have they established today? - Consciousness and Transcendence. - How do Syrians express their national identity? Number of pages: 174