Georges Tarabichi
George Tarabishi was a Syrian writer, philosopher, and translator. He translated over 200 books into Arabic, including works by Hegel, Freud, Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.
Life
Born in Aleppo, George Tarabishi was educated at the University of Damascus, where he gained a B.A. in Arabic and a M.A. in Education. He was director of Damascus Radio from 1963 to 1964. He was chief editor of the Journal for Arab Studies from 1972 to 1984 and of Unity Magazine from 1984 to 1989. He left Lebanon for France during the Lebanese Civil War, and settled in Paris.
In 2012 Tarabishi was chair of judges for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction.
Georges Tarabishi died on March 16, 2016, in Paris, France at the age of 77.
Selected works
Sartre and Marxism. The Sino-Soviet Split: A Critical-Ideological Study. God in Naguib Mahfouz's Symbolistic Journey. East and West: Masculinity and Femininity. The Symbolism of the Woman in the Arabic Novel and Other Studies. The Regional State and the Theory of Nationalism. The Oedipus Complex in the Arabic Novel. Masculinity and the Ideology of Masculinity in the Arabic Novel. Woman Against Her Sex: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Literature of Nawal al-Sa'dawi. The Slaughter of Heritage in Contemporary Arab Culture. Arab Intellectuals and Heritage: Psychological Analysis of a Collective Neurosis. The Novelist and His Hero: Approaching the Unconscious in the Arabic Novel. On the Culture of Democracy. Destinies of Philosophy in Christianity and Islam. The Problematics of Democracy in the Arab World. From Renaissance to Apostasy: Divergences in Arab Culture in the Age of Globalization. Critique of Jaberi's Critique of Arab Reason. Reason in Retirement in Islam. Sick with the West. Heresies, vol. 1: On Democracy, Secularism, Modernism and Arab Resistance. Heresies, vol. 2: On Secularism as an Intra-Islamic Problematic. Secularism in the Arab East. The Miracle, or The Slumber of Reason in Islam. From the Islam of the Qur'an to the Islam of the Hadith: An Emergence Resumed.