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Elie Elhadj
I am a banker with a thirty-year career in New York, Philadelphia, London, and Riyadh, where I was Chief Executive Officer of a major Saudi bank during most of the 1990s. Born in Syria, I opted for early retirement from banking at age 54 in order to seek answers to
questions on the cultures and religions, politics and reform prospects in Arab countries. In 1998, I enrolled as a student at London University's School of Oriental and African Studies.
Seven years later, with an M.A. in History and a
Ph.D. degree, I wrote The Islamic Shield. The book addresses Arab resistance to
democratic and religious reforms and the consequences that such
resistance might have on the Middle East and the wider world. (For more details, please see the next page: Books by Elie Elhadj). My doctoral dissertation, Experiments in Achieving Water and Food Self-Sufficiency in the Middle East, examines water politics in Saudi Arabia and Syria. (For more details, please see the next page: Books by Elie Elhadj).
In naming my Website Daring Opinion, I shall seek and propound the truth vigorously.
In his Nobel Prize for Literature inaugural lecture in December 2005, Harold Pinter said:
"The majority of politicians, on the evidence available
to us, are interested not in truth but in power and in the maintenance
of that power. To maintain that power it is essential that people
remain in ignorance, that they live in ignorance of the truth, even the
truth of their own lives. What surrounds us therefore is a vast
tapestry of lies, upon which we feed."
Note:
An individual with a name
similar to my own is listed in the directory of the Arabic language electronic newspaper ELAPH as correspondent/ reporter. The spelling of the two names in Arabic is identical, though the English spelling might be different. For purposes of clarity, I would like to state that I have no connection to ELAPH whatsoever, that my articles and two books are in English, and that I have never published any work in the Arabic language anywhere. |
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