The conjunction of the global economic and financial crisis with the transition under way in the Arab countries is a provocation both for societies in the West and for Islamic ones: do the ‘old’ development models still work?
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EDITORIAL
The Economy and Truth: Having More in order to Be More, Simona Beretta
FOCUS
Playing the Markets? Better than any Casino, Edward Hadas
A Business Leader by Vocation, Michael Naughton
Measuring the Incalculable: the Economy as Paradox, Silvano Petrosino
Fleeing from the Crisis. New Routes for New Migrants, Demetrios G. Papademetriou
A Pius Competitor for Commercial Banks, Nahed Caracalla
The Rough Road of a Growth that is Inclusive, Ridha Chkoundali
Those Cash Dispensing Machines Supplied by Heaven, Rania al-Mashat
The Capital of Preaching, Hussam Tamam
The Robust Health of the Former Sick Man of Europe, Deniz Ünal
Power Worn Down by Lost Neutrality, Kristian Coates Ulrichsen
‘We, European Citizens, Have United for the Better’, Hans-Gert Poettering
DOCUMENTS
To Make Earth Heaven, St. John Chrysostom
Work, the Source of Profit, Ibn Khaldûn
Coming out of Ourselves to go Towards the Outskirts, H.H. Pope Francis
ENCOUNTERS
Testimony, Theology and Prayer: The Three Pyramids of the Copts, Tawadros II
REPORTAGE
The Revolution that Will Not Die, Maria Laura Conte
CONTRIBUTIONS
The Task of Translation, Camilla Adang, Meira Polliack, Sabine Schmidtke
Crusades by Correspondence, Rifaat Ebied
Beyond the Antagonism of the Individual and the Community, Abderrazak Sayadi
In the End, Will there still be a Place for the Christians?, Sébastien de Courtois
REVIEW
Constantine Challenges Plural Society, Adrian Pabst
Deconstructing Secularity?, Paolo Monti
Successful and Unsuccessful Nations, Domenico Rossignoli
History of an ‘Accidental State’, Martino Diez
A Dual Critique to Save Islam, Michele Brignone
The Life of an Iron Picker, Emma Neri
PORTRAITS
Today’s Actors not Museum Pieces, Christian Cannuyer
COLOPHON
Biannual Journal of the Oasis International Foundation
Year 9°, Number 17, June 2013
Editor- in-chief Maria Laura Conte
Scientific Editor Martino Diez
Managing Editor Michele Brignone
Editorial staff Chiara Pellegrino - Meriem Senous
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Layout: Anna Wawrzyniak Maoloni - Alessandro Bellucci [Arabic and Urdu]
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English translation: Catharine De Rienzo - Matthew Fforde
Arabic translation: François Eid - Michele Brignone - Martino Diez [from Arabic]
Urdu translation: Mobeen Shahid
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