◾ "The ugliest types of tyranny, the tyranny of ignorance over knowledge, and the tyranny of self over reason. "More than a century after his death, the words of Abdul Rahman al-Quaqibi seem current in a way that evokes both irony and concern. The thinker who explained the mechanisms of tyranny and authority relations to fear and obedience finds himself once again facing the Syrian censorship. The regimes and rulers changed, and the question that preoccupied al-Qawakibi throughout his life remained the same: why is authority afraid of a mind that thinks freely? To read the full article Marva Jordi | The new Syria deletes his name from the educational curricula: Who is afraid of Abdul Rahman al-Quaqibi?

◾ "The ugliest types of tyranny, the tyranny of ignorance over knowledge, and the tyranny of self over reason. "More than a century after his death, the words of Abdul Rahman al-Quaqibi seem current in a way that evokes both irony and concern. The thinker who explained the mechanisms of tyranny and authority relations to fear and obedience finds himself once again facing the Syrian censorship. The regimes and rulers changed, and the question that preoccupied al-Qawakibi throughout his life remained the same: why is authority afraid of a mind that thinks freely? To read the full article Marva Jordi | The new Syria deletes his name from the educational curricula: Who is afraid of Abdul Rahman al-Quaqibi?