ABSTRACT
They were always up to date on what was going on in the world, read Foreign Affairs and the polylingual Roman review Botteghe Oscure, had digested authors as dissimilar as Marx, Heidegger, and Stirner, and-what is more unusual than one would suspect-they had also read Hallaj and Djabarti. Some went abroad every year to renew their contacts with such illustrious Western figures as Jaspers, Abellio, or Papini. George Henein, Munir Hafez, Magdi Wahba, Lutfallah Soliman, and Ali el-Shalakani are writers of the kind we are referring to.
