TABLE OF CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

Dawn of the Declared Dead? On the Intellectual and Other Reasons for Launching a New Journal on the Middle East (Yvonne Albers, Maike Neufend) 4–11

META

Plugging into the Body of the Leviathan: Proposal for a New Sociology of Public Interventions (Gil Eyal) 13–24

FOCUS

The Arab Quest for Freedom and Dignity: Have Arab Thinkers Been Part of It? (Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab) 26–34

What Makes a “Muslim Intellectual”? On the Pros and Cons of a Category (Jan-Peter Hartung) 35–45

Nurturing Intellectuals in the Islamic Republic: The National Elites Foundation (Julie S. Leube) 46–52

“Speaking Truth to Power?” Intellectuals in Iraqi Baathist Cultural Production (Leslie Tramontini) 53–61

CLOSE UP

Mohammed Arkoun: An Intellectual in Revolt (Ursula Günther) 63–67