The 45th edition of Tabayyun has been published by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies. This Special Issue on "Contemporary Political Culture" This issue includes the following articles: "Political Culture: General Remarks" by Azmi Bishara; "Culture as a Weapon: Culture Wars in the United States and Egypt" by Abdelwahab El-Affendi; "Affective Attitudes and Democratic Political Culture" by Raja Bahloul; "Political Culture in a Time of Cultural Diversity: Civilizational Patterns in the Face of Normative Extremism" by Youssouf Zedam.
The issue also includes two articles: "Secularism and Theology: Contemporary Theological and Philosophical Readings of the Relation of the Enlightenment and Modernity with Religious Thought" by Najib George Awad; "The Pride of the City and the Audacity of the Philosopher" by Mohamed el-Hadi Omari.
The issue also contains Kamel Terchi's review of The Frankfurt School: Its History, Theory and Political Significance, by Rolf Wiggershaus, and Mohamed Lachhab's review of The Theory of Communicative Action by Jürgen Habermas in Two Volumes.