Talk:Burhan Ghalioun

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Professor Burhan Ghalioun - Publications

It is a testimony of the diletanism of the former edits that it was stated that the works of this major Arabic intellectual were published in Hebrew and in French, instead of Arabic and French. Voila - here is the list of his major works from the CLIO catalogue of Columbia University Library.

1Bayān min ajl al-dīmuqrāṭīyah / Burhān Ghalyūn. Ghalyūn, Burhān, 1945- [Algeria] : Dār Būshān lil-Nashr, [1990] Call Number: JQ1850.A2 G47 1990g Location: Lehman Not checked out

2Dīmuqrāṭīyah wa-al-aḥzāb fī al-buldān al-ʻArabīyah : al-mawāqif wa-al-makhāwif al-mutabādalah / Burhān Ghalyūn ... [et al.].

Bayrūt, Lubnān : Markaz Dirāsāt al-Waḥdah al-ʻArabīyah, 1999. Call Number: JQ1850.A91 D555 1999g Location: Lehman Not checked out

3Ḥawla al-khiyār al-dīmuqrāṭī : dirāsāt naqdīyah / Burhān Ghalyūn... [et al.].

Rām Allāh : Muwāṭin, al-Muʾassasah al-Filasṭīnīyah li-Dirāsat al-Dīmuqrāṭīyah, 1993. Multiple copies: click title for details

4Ḥiwārāt min ʻaṣr al-ḥarb al-ahlīyah / Burhān Ghalyūn. Ghalyūn, Burhān, 1945- Bayrūt, Lubnān : al-Muʾassasah al-ʻArabīyah lil-Dirāsāt wa-al-Nashr, 1995. Call Number: DS80.9 .G43 1995g Location: Lehman Not checked out

5Ḥuqūq al-insān al-ʻArabī / Burhān Ghalyūn ... [et al.].

Bayrūt : Markaz Dirāsāt al-Waḥdah al-ʻArabīyah, 1999. Call Number: JC599.A65 H877 1999g Location: Lehman Not checked out

6Ightiyāl al-ʻaql : miḥnat al-thaqāfah al-ʻArabīyah bayna al-salafīyah wa-al-tabaʻīyah / Burhān Ghalyūn. Ghalyūn, Burhān, 1945- al-Qāhirah, Miṣr : Maktabat Madbūlī, 1990. Multiple copies: click title for details

7Islam et politique : la modernité trahie / Burhan Ghalioun.

Ghalyūn, Burhān, 1945- Paris : La Découverte, c1997. Call Number: BP173.7 .G47 1997 Location: Edward Said Reading Rm, 616 Butler (Non-Circulating) Not checked out

8Mā baʻda al-Khalīj, aw, ʻAṣr al-muwājahāt al-kubrā / Burhān Ghalyūn. Ghalyūn, Burhān, 1945- al-Qāhirah : Maktabat Madbūlī, 1993. Call Number: DS79.72 .G425 1993g Location: Lehman

Not checked out

9Malaise arabe : l'Etat contre la Nation / Burhan Ghalioun. Ghalyūn, Burhān, 1945- Paris : La Découverte, 1991. Call Number: DS39 .G48 1991 Location: Lehman Not checked out

10Malaise arabe : l'Etat contre la Nation / Burhan Ghalioun. Ghalyūn, Burhān, 1945- Paris : La Découverte, 1991. Call Number: DS39 .G48 1991 Location: Lehman Not checked out

11Maʻrakat al-iṣlāḥ fī Sūriyā / [al-mushārikūn] Burhān Ghalyūn ... [et al.] ; taḥrīr Raḍwān Ziyādah.

Jārdin Sītī, al-Qāhirah : Markaz al-Qāhirah li-Dirāsāt Ḥuqūq al-Insān, 2006. Call Number: DS98.6 .M36 2006g Location: Lehman Not checked out

12Masʾalah al-ṭāʾifīyah wa-mushkilat al-aqallīyāt / Burhān Ghalyūn. Ghalyūn, Burhān, 1945- [Cairo] : Sīnā lil-Nashr, [1988] Call Number: HN766.A8 G443 1988g Location: Butler Stacks (Enter at the Butler Circulation Desk) Not checked out

13Miḥnah al-ʻArabīyah : al-dawlah ḍidda al-ummah / Burhān Ghalyūn. Ghalyūn, Burhān, 1945- Bayrūt, Lubnān : Markaz Dirāsāt al-Waḥdah al-ʻArabīyah, 1993. Call Number: DS63.1 .G443 1993g Location: Lehman Not checked out

14Mujtamaʻ al-nukhbah / Burhan Ghalyun. Ghalyun, Burhan, 1945- Tunis : Dar al-Buraq, 1989. Call Number: ME26855 Location: Offsite - Place Request for delivery within 2 business days Not checked out

15Mujtamaʻ al-nukhbah / Burhān Ghalyūn. Ghalyūn, Burhān, 1945- Bayrūt, Lubnān : Maʻhad al-Inmāʾ al-ʻArabī, 1986. Call Number: DS36.8 .G443 1986g Location: Butler Stacks (Enter at the Butler Circulation Desk) Not checked out

16Naqd al-siyāsah al-dawlah wa-al-dīn / Burhān Ghalyūn. Ghalyūn, Burhān, 1945- Bayrūt : al-Muʾassasah al-ʻArabīyah lil-Dirāsāt wa-al-Nashr, 1991. Call Number: JC49 .G424 1991g Location: Lehman Not checked out

17Niẓām al-ṭāʾifīyah min al-dawlah ilá al-qabīlah / Burhān Ghalyūn. Ghalyūn, Burhān, 1945- Bayrūt : al-Markaz al-Thaqāfī al-ʻArabī, 1990. Call Number: DS87 .G485 1990 Location: Lehman Not checked out

18ʻUrūbah wa-al-qarn al-ḥādī wa-al-ʻishrīn : aʻmāl al-muʾtamar alladhī ʻuqida fī Bayrūt fī al-fatrah 25-28 Shubāṭ/Fibrāyir taḥta ʻunwān "Mustaqbal lil-ʻurūbah fī al-qarn al-ḥādī wa-al-ʻishrīn / [al-mushāri

Bayrūt, Lubnān : al-Dār al-ʻArabīyah lil-ʻUlūm Nāshirūn, 2009. Call Number: DS63.6 .U783 2009g Location: Butler Stacks (Enter at the Butler Circulation Desk) Not checked out

19Waʻy al-dhātī / Burhān Ghalyūn. Ghalyūn, Burhān, 1945- Bayrūt, Lubnān : al-Muʾassasah al-ʻArabīyah lil-Dirāsāt wa-al-Nashr, 1992. Call Number: HN766.A8 G487 1992 Location: Edward Said Reading Rm, 616 Butler (Non-Circulating) Not checked out

20Waʻy al-dhātī / Burhān Ghalyūn. Ghalyūn, Burhān, 1945- al-Dār al-Bayḍāʾ : ʻUyūn al-Maqālāt, 1987. Call Number: HN766 .G443 1987g Location: Offsite - Place Request for delivery within 2 business days Not checked out

21Waʻy al-dhātī / Burhān Ghalyūn. Ghalyūn, Burhān, 1945- [Tunis?] : Dar al-Buraq, [198-] Call Number: ME26749 Location: Offsite - Place Request for delivery within 2 business days Not checked out — Preceding unsigned comment added by Franz weber (talk • contribs) 08:33, 11 June 2012 (UTC)

A note to the WIKI 'professional' deleters - not deletion, but bringing articles up to date

It is really ridiculous that an article on the Head of the Syrian opposition is nominated for deletion.

Please note the following recent article in the Guardian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/may/30/last-gamble-syria-fascist-regime

At the same time, it should be noted that Dr. Ghalioun now offered to resign from his post - see

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/17/syria-opposition-rift-burhan-ghalioun

Syria opposition rift widens with resignation of Burhan GhaliounSyrian National Council president offers to quit as infighting continues among opponents of President Bashar al-Assad

Email Associated Press in Beirut guardian.co.uk, Thursday 17 May 2012 19.00 BST Syrian National Council president Burhan Ghalioun has announced he will resign 'as soon as a replacement is found'. Photograph: Khaled Desouki/AFP/Getty Images The head of Syria's main opposition council offered to resign on Thursday "as soon as a replacement is found" after some members threatened to quit, damaging efforts to present a united front against President Bashar al-Assad.

Burhan Ghalioun said he did not wish to be a divisive figure and was ready to step down, just days after he was re-elected to a third, three-month term as head of the Syrian National Council (SNC).

"I announce my resignation as soon as a new candidate is picked, either by consensus or new elections," he said. "I will continue to work to serve the revolution from my position as a member of the council."

Syria's opposition is still struggling to overcome infighting and inexperience 15 months into the uprising, preventing the movement from gaining the traction it needs to present a credible alternative to Assad. Its international backers have repeatedly appealed for the movement to pull together and work as one unit.

Since its inception last September, the council has acted as the revolution's international face and been a contact point for western leaders.

Ghalioun's statement came after a key activist group accused the leadership of marginalising council members and acting alone on major decisions.

The Local Co-ordination Committees (LCC), a network of activists inside and outside Syria, warned the SNC it was drifting away from the spirit of the country's revolution and threatened to suspend its membership.

"We have seen nothing in the past months except political incompetence in the SNC and a total lack of consensus between its vision and that of the revolutionaries," the LCC said.

The UN estimated in March that the violence in Syria had killed more than 9,000 people. Hundreds more have been killed since then as a revolt that began with mostly peaceful calls for reform has transformed into an armed insurgency.

The SNC, whose leaders are largely Syrian exiles, has tried with little success to gather the opposition under its umbrella and has alienated minorities including the Kurds and Alawites, the tiny sect to which Assad belongs. The Alawite community has largely stuck by Assad.

Some opposition figures accuse its leadership of being out of touch with reality on the ground while several prominent dissidents have already quit the SNC, calling it an "autocratic" organisation.

Bassma Kodmani, a Paris-based senior council figure, said on Thursday that the LCC concerns were "justified and legitimate." She acknowledged this week's meeting in Rome where Ghalioun was re-elected was marred by the absence of several members and should have been better prepared.

However, she said differences within the Syrian opposition were "natural and healthy" and a sign of democracy, "otherwise we would be just like the Ba'ath Party and the Assad regime".

Ghalioun, a Sunni Muslim professor at the Sorbonne in Paris who has led the SNC since its formation, has been criticised by some opposition figures of being too close to the Muslim Brotherhood and of trying to monopolise power.

Ghalioun ran against George Sabra, a Christian council member seen by many as a better choice to soothe concerns by Syria's religious minorities, some of whom have remained loyal to Assad out of fear for their future in case his regime collapses.

Unlike Libya's National Transitional Council, which brought together most factions against Muammar Gaddafi's regime and was quickly recognised by much of the international community, Syria's opposition has no leadership on the ground and has not been officially recognised by significant powers.

A conference sponsored by the Arab League in Cairo to help unite the disparate opposition was cancelled this week, largely because of infighting between various groups.

See also the latest dispatch from AFP, quoted some hours ago in the TIMES OF INDIA

Syria opposition elects Kurd activist as leader AFP Jun 10, 2012, 11.24AM IST

BEIRUT: The opposition Syrian National Council said on Sunday that it had elected Kurdish activist Abdel Basset Sayda as its new leader at a meeting in Istanbul.

"Abdel Basset Sayda has been elected president of the Syrian National Council as successor to Dr. Burhan Ghalioun," a brief statement said.

He takes over from Paris-based academic Ghalioun, the exiled bloc's first leader who stepped down last month in the face of mounting splits that were undermining the group's credibility — Preceding unsigned comment added by Franz weber (talk • contribs) 08:46, 11 June 2012 (UTC)

Hi Franz, I'm not sure what you're referring to. This article has not been nominated for deletion. It does, however, have a tag requesting that the information in it be sourced according to our policy on Verifiability. If you'd be interested in helping with that process, your help would be very welcome! Khazar2 (talk) 15:20, 11 June 2012 (UTC)

Removing unsourced information from article

As has been noted for several months, large chunks of this article have been unsourced for some time. As this is a BLP of a politician in a controversial conflict, I think a high standard is called for. Accordingly, I've removed all unsourced info and will be working to rebuild from the little bit that's left. Assistance would be welcome! Khazar2 (talk) 05:21, 1 July 2012 (UTC)