Of all the world’s regions, the Arab Middle East is the only one that lacks a single functioning democracy. ‘Democracy in the Arab World,’ an essay written by the Syrian-French philosopher George Tarabishi and translated by William Tamplin (PhD, ’20), lays out six reasons why democracy has had trouble taking root and flourishing in the Arab world.
Founded as a graduate program in 1904 and joining with the undergraduate Literature Concentration in 2007, Harvard’s Department of Comparative Literature operates at the crossroads of multilingualism, literary study, and media history.
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