Sari Nusseibeh Knihy

Sari Nusseibeh's extraordinary memoirs are now out in paperback. The story of Nusseibeh's family is the story of the Palestinian people.

What is a Palestinian state worth? This book poses questions about the history, meaning, future, and resolution of the Israel/Palestine conflict.

Exploring the philosophy of Ibn Sina, also known as Avicenna, this book offers a fresh perspective on the influential Persian Muslim philosopher of the eleventh century. It delves into his rationalist ideas, highlighting his significance in the context of his time and examining how his thoughts shaped philosophical discourse. Through a detailed analysis, the work aims to illuminate Avicenna's contributions and their lasting impact on both Eastern and Western thought.

In The Story of Reason in Islam, leading public intellectual and political activist Sari Nusseibeh narrates a sweeping intellectual history—a quest for knowledge inspired by the Qu'ran and its language, a quest that employed Reason in the service of Faith. Eschewing the conventional separation of Faith and Reason, he takes a fresh look at why and how Islamic reasoning evolved over time. He surveys the different Islamic schools of thought and how they dealt with major philosophical issues, showing that Reason pervaded all disciplines, from philosophy and science to language, poetry, and law. Along the way, the best known Muslim philosophers are introduced in a new light. Countering received chronologies, in this story Reason reaches its zenith in the early seventeenth century; it then trails off, its demise as sudden as its appearance. Thereafter, Reason loses out to passive belief, lifeless logic, and a self-contained legalism—in other words, to a less flexible Islam. Nusseibeh's speculations as to why this occurred focus on the fortunes and misfortunes of classical Arabic in the Islamic world. Change, he suggests, may only come from the revivification of language itself.

A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA teacher, a scholar, a philosopher, and an eyewitness to history, Sari Nusseibeh is one of our most urgent and articulate authorities on the conflict in the Middle East. From his time teaching side by side with Israelis at the Hebrew University through his appointment by Yasir Arafat to administer the Arab Jerusalem, he has held fast to the principles of freedom and equality for all, and his story dramatizes the consequences of war, partition, and terrorism as few other books have done. Once Upon a Country brings rare depth and compassion to the story of his country.

Der palästinensische Hochschullehrer und PLO-Diplomat Sari Nusseibeh, der im arabischen Teil Jerusalems aufwuchs, keine fünfzig Meter entfernt von dem Schriftsteller Amos Oz, in England studierte und nach dem Sechs-Tage-Krieg nach Hause zurückkehrte, ist ein Pendler zwischen den verfeindeten Seiten. In seiner Autobiographie erzählt er seine eigene Geschichte und die seines Volkes – und entwirft die Vision eines Landes, in dem Muslime, Juden und Christen harmonisch zusammenleben. „Ein feinsinniges, trauriges und humorvolles Erinnerungsbuch, das neues Licht auf die Tragödie des Israel-Palästina-Konflikts wirft, zugleich ein lebendiges Bild der palästinensischen Gesellschaft.“ Amos Oz

Abschied von der Zwei-Staaten-Lösung? Seit sechzig Jahren ist der Nahost-Konflikt ein Problem der Weltpolitik, das trotz zahlloser Lösungsvorschläge bis heute ungelöst ist – die aktuelle Situation scheint sogar verfahrener denn je. In einer solchen Situation, argumentiert Sari Nusseibeh, einer der bekanntesten palästinensischen Philosophen und seit Jahren aktiv in den Friedensprozess involviert, muss man über die eingefahrenen Muster hinausdenken. Um einen Raum zu öffnen, in dem der Frieden nicht nur denkbar ist, muss man sich die essentiellen Fragen neu stellen: Wie konnte es so weit kommen? Was zählt im Alltag der Menschen? Und wozu soll ein Staat überhaupt dienen? Sari Nusseibehs provokante Reflexion ist ein intellektuelles wie emotionales vermittelndes Plädoyer für eine humane Zivilgesellschaft in Nahost, für einen neuen Weg zum Frieden.