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Thesis statement: I will argue that Academic activism is the prelude to a…
Thesis statement: I will argue that Academic activism is the prelude to a successful political change in the Arab countries.
Arguments
Academic Activism will permit the speciliasts and scholars to express their ideas which are important to resolve our society problems.
We experienced by the past good examples of effective academic activism like the Taha Hussein's case
Academic activism will permit the application of the different theories that academicians are working on without giving to these theories to be tried in the real world
Schoalrs, because of their positions, can have access to information and material that is not available to everyone, and it's their duty to make this content available to the public.
The recent crisis showed the vulnerability of the current regimes which is propitious to the emergence of a new political elite with a project obtained by studying the Arabs problems in an academic way
Objections
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Academic activism can create a personality cult towards academicians which can lead a new sort of elitism
The job of academicians is to make the information available to the public and then the population can judge. We are not calling for the participation of the academicians in riots or
Scholars and academicians will not be able to share their knowledge with a large portion of the population.
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Some one may object that the Taha Hussein's example didn't really succeded since we live in a problematic situation in the Arab World right now.
We have to see what Taha Hussein achieved during his life and we will recognize that we made huge achievements . Indeed, the ideas that his started in his time are still discussed in the Arab World until today and they influenced a lot of intellectuals
We may advance that a democratic environment will lead to the seizure of power by some extremists groups as the Arab springs shows, since they enjoy a lot of influenced in the Arab societies.
With the practice of power even these groups will understand that they have to compromise on a lot of aspects to be able to govern in a good way and gain the population's support
The Arab societies are starting to be more and more liberal and secular which may contain the islamists from gaining a huge control of the countries politics in a frame world of a democratically system.
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Missing part
Give current examples of people working in academia and in the same time they try to publish and work on stuff that may improve or give answers to the different issues
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Will the people be receptive to the new ideas and new suggestions that are proposed by the scholars.