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Table of Contents Editorial Abier BushnaqEnglish  German  Arabic Darwin‘s Theaory of Evolution: Dusty hypothesis or luminous reality Habib Abd ar-Rabb Sururi – YemenArabic Palestinian Literature after Oslo: A testimony Ahmad Harb – PalestineArabic Power and the mentality of exploitation Ahmad al-Barqawi – Palestine/SyriaArabic The Moroccan youth between the individual and the collective I Abu Azm […]

Against the background of the continuous war situation in the Arab world the issue of the integration of Arab immigrants into Western society has become more and more important. Is their integration in a crisis?

Dear reader! Starting from the assumption that there must be found a way out of the dilemma of terrorism and that the reasons for the crisis in the relationship between the Islamic world and the West must be overcome by working out a solution together, a group of German diplomats, who have formally served in Arab countries, addressed the EU with an open letter of appeal.

Autumn is a time of reflection and contemplation and so – appropriate to the time of the year – we publish in this new virtual issue a couple of articles that look thoughtfully – back and forth – and ask many questions that concern all nations.

On August the 28th 2004 in Oxford the annual meeting „Project for Democracy Studies in the Arab World“ took place for the 14th time. This meeting of Arab academics is extraordnary, has it not indeed established itself throughout the years as a highly respected forum, in which modern Arab intellectuals elaborate on current issues that move the emotions of millions of Arabs around the world to find solutions for what seems to be insoluble. It is remarkable that this project, which was founded in the middle of Europe, has since then been a forum organized by Arabs for Arabs.