Review by Ed Husain The author addresses young Arabs’ questions on Islam, secularism and pluralism but disparages their efforts and sacrifice ㄧ篇評論 Tariq Ramadan 最新著作 The Arab Awakening: Islam and the new Middle East . The Arab Awakening: Islam and the new Middle East , by Tariq Ramadan, Allen Lane, RRP£20 The time has come to stop blaming the west for the colonialism and imperialism of the past,” Tariq Ramadan writes in his new book, The Arab Awakening . At last, I thought, an Arab Muslim – and a grandson of the founder of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood no less – has moved beyond wallowing in victimhood. I was wrong. He completed the above sentence by accusing the west of ongoing “attempts at manipulation and control” of Arab societies. This book comes at an important time. Young Arabs are hungrily seeking answers to their questions about Islam, democracy, secularism, pluralism and the modern world. Ramadan is at his strongest in this boo...