Author Archives: Abdullah Elmaazi

Over one hundred years ago, the Syrian thinker and one of the pioneers of the Arab renaissance, Abd al-Raḥman al-Kawakibi, wrote in his treatise The Nature of Despotism: “The end of the tyrannical state does not only affect the tyrants. The destruction engulfs the people, their land and their homes. Because the tyrannical state in its final stages strikes randomly at all and sundry like an ox or an elephant gone berserk in a pottery shop. The tyrannical state will destroy itself, and in the process will destroy its offspring and its entire kin before succumbing to its inevitable demise.” Continue reading →