Can Islam change?

The weekly publishes an exclusive: a conversation between the great Syrian-born Arab poet, Adonis, and his daughter, Ninar Esber. In it, Adonis describes the impasse in which the Arab world finds itself. All of Islam's Arab geniuses, from Abu Nawas to Al-Ma'arri, all the greatest poets and philosophers have been opposed to religion. And no thought has emerged directly from religion, as a scent might emanate from a flower. Thinkers and poets created other flowers, in order to extract from them other scents. ... There have always been currents that demanded laicity and sought progress. In our contemporary history, all intellectuals and parties in every Arab country have insisted on these types of things - but they have lost their fight. Simply put, they have failed. Their ideas have failed."

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