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The Humanities Are Not In Crisis:  Two Writers Whose Pens Shape the Arab World

The Humanities Are Not In Crisis: Two Writers Whose Pens Shape the Arab World

I just got back from MLA 2016, the annual Modern Language Association conference in which every year (every city) you’ll hear a variation of this same question at least five times a day: Are the humanities still relevant? That is, of course, the general anxiety that underwrites so many of the incredible panels one encounters…