Shaker Al-Nabulsi

Dr. Shaker Al Nabulsi is an American author and columnist of Jordanian descent. He is a signatory of the St. Petersburg Declaration and has authored numerous books and written widely cited articles on politics, religion, literature and the Arab world.

He noted that:

"There are individuals in the Muslim world who pose as clerics and issue death sentences against those they disagree with. These individuals give Islam a bad name and foster hatred :among civilizations."

Published works

• The Poetic Entanglement: An introspection into Fadwa Tuqan's Poetry 1961
• Open-Ended: The works of Antoine Zhukov 1963
• Doctrine of Love, Doctrine of Violence: A literary study of Naguib Mahfouz 1985
• Between the Blade and its Victim: the Short Stories of the Saudi Kingdom 1985
• The Ubiquitous Fire: A Chronicle of Arabian life 1985
• What tomorrow May Bring: A look at the Future of Saudi Arabia 1985
• Light and the Doll: The Poetry of Nizar Qabbani 1986
• The Bitter Era: Essays on Arab Politics and Culture 1986
• Settlement Train: Initiatives in Palestinian Equality 1986
• Abandoning the Color White: Essays on Arab Politics 1986
• Loaf of Fire: A study of Modern Arabic Poetry 1986
• Heritage Lunatic: A study of Mahmoud Darwish's Poetry 1987
• Pillow of Ice: America's Middle Eastern Policy 1987
• Flightless Bird: The deteriorating Educational System in Arabia 1988
• The Third Culture: Exploring the Japanese Civilization 1988
• Working with Sand: The Cultural Development of the Arabian Gulf 1988
• Stoning with words: A study of Arab Intellictuals 1989
• Unlocking the Memories of a lady: A study of Ghada Samman's works 1990
• A Revolution in Heritage: A study of Khalid M Khalid's Thought 1991
• Desert Tropic: A.R . Munif's Literature 1991
• Harvest of Silence: A study on Modern Saudi Poetry 1992
• Freedom & Joy in the Arabic Novel: Examining Arabia's most significant Novelists 1992
• River East: An Analysis of Contemporary Jordanian Culture 1993
• The Esthetics of Setting: Reviewing the literature of Ghalib Halasa 1994
• The Jordanian Novel and its place in Arabic Literature 1994
• Ballads Within Dwellings: A Biography of Shiek Imam Isa 1998
• The Age of Decadence & Foster: The cultural landscape under the Ottoman Empire 1999
• Devoured by the Wolf: A Biography of Political Cartoonist Naji Elali 1999
• The Sultan: A Guide to Maintaining Political Power 2000
• Arab thought of the 20th Century (3 Volumes) 2001
• Wealth and The Crescent: Economic Factors leading to the Advent of Islam 2002
• The Arabs had Islam Never Emerged: The Counterfactual history of Arabia in the absence of *Islam 2002
• The Arabian Hamlet: In Memory of Munis Arazaz 2003
• Arab Street: The Middle East's Political Public Opinion 2003
• Rise of the Militant Society 2003
• Critical Views in Politics and Cultures 2004
• The Rupture: Essays on Iraq 2004
• Foolish Questions: Islam and Politics 2005
• Devil's Advocate: A study of Alaffif Alakadir's Thought 2005
• Neo-Liberals 2005
• "Why?" Questions in the third Millennium 2006
• Prisons Without Bars: The Arab World's Current Situation 2007
• Bin Laden and the Arab Mind 2007
• "Honest Attempts to Grasp the Incomprehensible" 2008
• The Great Wall of Arabia 2009
• The Inconsistencies of Fundamentalism 2009

References

• Recent Attacks by Islamists on Arab Liberals – A Sign of Distress and Imminent Defeat
• The Arabs are Still Slaves to a Medieval Mentality