THE SECTARIAN MENACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST: THE OTHER 'SAMSON OPTION'

Abstract

I would like to thank the Istanbul Medeniyet University for the honour of delivering this keynote speech, and I would like not to waste this opportunity with engaging in idle academic banter. There is nothing wrong with idle academic banter when the time is right, but at grave times like this, it is the duty of intellectuals to speak to urgent and pressing matters of concern to the ordinary man and woman in the community.