Euro-Jews and Afro-Arabs

Ali A. Mazrui is a distinguished political scientist, a leading historian, and a multimedia public intellectual. He has written dozens of books, and narrated documentaries on British and American television. In Eastern Africa he grew up among Arabs, and in England and the United States he was partly educated by Jews. Foreign Policy magazine has described Mazrui as one of the top 100 public intellectuals alive in the world today. Ali Mazrui is currently Director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies at Binghamton University, New York; Senior Scholar in Africana Studies at Cornell University, New York; and Chancellor of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Nairobi, Kenya.Seifudein Adem was educated in Ethiopia and Japan, and has taught in universities in Africa, Japan, and the United States. He is an expert on comparative politics and comparative cultural studies. His other books include Hegemony and Discourse and Paradigm Lost, Paradigm Regained. He has also written about the great Arab historian and inventor of modern sociology, Ibn Khaldun. Dr. Adem is currently Associate Director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York.

It is...of considerable value to those who wish to understand better the historical trends and appreciate the respective places of Euro-Jews and Afro-Arabs in history and geography....Recommended.

• Part 1 Preface and AcknowledgmentsPart 2 Section I: The Great Semitic DivergenceChapter 3 Chapter 1: Towards the Europeanization of the Jews and the Africanization of the ArabsChapter 4 Chapter 2: Semitic Divergence and African ConvergencePart 5 Section II: Euro-Jews in World HistoryChapter 6 Chapter 3: The Talmudic Tradition in Comparative PerspectiveChapter 7 Chapter 4: Muslims between the Jewish Example and the Black ExperienceChapter 8 Chapter 5: Blacks, Jews and Comparative DiasporasChapter 9 Chapter 6: Is Israel a Threat to American Democracy?Part 10 Section III: Afro-Arabs in World HistoryChapter 11 Chapter 7: Between Arabo-Hebraic Divergence and Afro-Arab ConvergenceChapter 12 Chapter 8: The Black Arabs in Comparative PerspectiveChapter 13 Chapter 9: The Multiple Marginality of the SudanChapter 14 Chapter 10: Africa and Egypt's Four Circles: Nasser's LegacyChapter 15 Chapter 11: Afro-Arab CrossfireChapter 16 Chapter 12: Eurafrica, Erabia, and Afro-Arab RelationsPart 17 Section IV: The Semites Between Sin and VirtureChapter 18 Chapter 13: Comparative Slavery: Western, Muslim and African LegaciesChapter 19 Chapter 14: Comparative Racism: Zionism and ApartheidChapter 20 Chapter 15: Comparative Terrorism: Arab, Jewish and African (Usama, Sharon and Shaka)Chapter 21 Chapter 16: Black Intifadah: The Mau Mau War and the Palestinian UprisingChapter 22 Chapter 17: Between Intifadah and Al Quaeda: East African PerspectivesPart 23 Section V: Islam in World AffairsChapter 24 Chapter 18: Muslims in a Century of Four Ethical RevolutionsChapter 25 Chapter 19: Africa and Islam in Search of Seven Pillars of WisdomChapter 26 Chapter 20: Islam and the United States: Streams of Convergence, Strands of DivergencePart 27 Section VI: ConclusionsChapter 28 Chapter 21: The Semitic Impact on AfricaChapter 29 Chapter 22: Euro-Jews and Afro-Arabs in World History: A ConclusionPart 30 Appendix I: Prosperous Minorities as Targets of PrejudicePart 31 Appendix II: Is "Jewish Uniqueness" a Dangerous Doctrine?Part 32 Appendix III: The Nuclear Club: Is There a Judeo-Christian Monopoly?