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Q&A with Chibli Mallat, author of Democracy Redefined

Chibli Mallat introduces 'Democracy Redefined' and explores the Lebanese Constitution's history and its unique approach to democracy.

September 12, 2025
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A painting depicting a scene from Dream of the Red Chamber

An extract from “Wasted Innocence: Children and Childhood in Cao Xueqin’s Dream of the Red Chamber”

by Xiaofei Shi and Labao Wang Does Chinese children’s literature have a prehistory? While it is presumptuous to date the history of Chinese children’s literature all the way back to the Eastern Jin Dynasty (317–420) when the tale ‘Li Ji’…

Kevin Worrall
September 6, 2021

Q&A with Chibli Mallat, author of Democracy Redefined

An extract from “Wasted Innocence: Children and Childhood in Cao Xueqin’s Dream of the Red Chamber”

Q&A with Chibli Mallat, author of Democracy Redefined

How is this Philosophy?

Hardboiled Blues: Rethinking the Music of Rory Gallagher

Wicked Wild Wastes?: challenging contemporary ideas of wildness in Scottish Highland landscapes

Drawing away from the X assemblage