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Wissam, Wesley, or simply W, is an educator, writer, entrepreneur, engineer, activist, ex-Imam, humanist, liberal thinker with interest and mediocre attempt at many takes of life. A modern confused Renaissance man, who uses doubt as a path for emancipation and science as a road towards enlightenment.

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ā€œI believe in you. I believe in your destiny. I believe that you are contributors to this new civilization … I believe that you can say to Emerson, and Whitman and James: In my veins runs the blood of the poets and wise men of old, and it is my desire to come to you and receive, but I shall not come with empty hands.ā€ Gibran Khalil Gibran addressing Arab American youths July 1926 #wcharaf #gibrankhalilgibran #khalilgibran #gibran #arabamerican

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I donā€™t recognize Israel as much as I donā€™t recognize all the Arabic countries. I donā€™t recognize all the post-colonialist structures in our region that were mandated by force and did not and still do not represent the self-determination of the people. Photo: Mayor of Jerusalem Hussein Effendi el Husseini, meeting with Sergts. Sedgwick and Hurcomb of the London Regiment, under the white flag of surrender, Dec. 9th 1917. #wcharaf

Printing Presses and Arabic Identity

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Napoleon Bonaparte brought the printing press to Egypt. It operated in the Bulawayo section of Cairo.

The Americans brought printing press to Beirut from Malta in 1830’s, under the direction of Eli Smith.

Although the intention was to influence the population, it empowered the Arabic lexicon and gave birth to the modern Arabic Identity.

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Photo: logo idea of AACCA designed by Wissam Charafeddine