First Civilizational War

C O N T E N T S  
 
 

Introduction

A. August 2nd, 1990 : Gulf Crisis, beginning of the post-colonial era

1. The Emergence of "post-colonialism"

2. Yes, there will be a war

3. Our tragedy is the lack of genuine democracy

4. Future of the Arab world : three scenarios

5. Peace is contingent on observance of the United Nations Charter

6. The ins and outs of the war
 
 

B. January 17, 1991 : Outbreak of the First Civilizational War

7. The war which started and will not end

8. The hideous face of the new world order

9. Muslims in France and the Gulf War

10. Two weeks after the breakthrough of hostilities

11. Peace : a "Nightmare scenario"

12. Cultural aspects of the Gulf war

13. A civilizational confrontation

14. Five motives, five crimes, and five consequences of the war

15. The scientific and technological dimensions of the war

16 The First real world war

17. The American rejection of peace is inevitable

18. Cost of the Gulf war in figures

19. A modern time record of Western culture

20. The Tchernobyl of the Gulf

21. The Gulf war and its prospects

22. Our diversion before the diversion of the law

23. The crisis is within us

24. Memory and amnesia

25. Futures of the Islamic world : Future studies - needs, facts and prospects

ANNEXES

I. Open letters to the United Nations Secretary general

II. Open letters to the Director General of UNESCO

III. Telefax to Edgard Pisani, President of the Institute of the Arab World (Paris)

IV. The Knights of Death, poem by Kemal Zebdi
 

Mahdi Elmandjra
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