Arab Thinker: Your Opinion is a Crime in the Arab World

(FOR ENGLISH SUBTITLES, CLICK ON THE SPEECH BUBBLE AT THE BOTTOM RIGHT OF THE VIDEO) In this Video, the Syrian Poet Adonis (Ali Ahmad Said) discusses the dictatorship and intellectual repression that has become the norm in the Arab world. He describes Arab society as having become ’extinct’ due to a loss of its creative energy and innovation. Prevalent interpretations of Islam, Said states, are destroying the faith from its core. DISCLAIMER: I do not necessarily agree with, or endorse, or support the