Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Azmi Bishara (Arabic: عزمي بشارة About this sound listen , Hebrew: עַזְמִי בִשַארָה About this sound listen , was born on 22 July 1956 in Nazareth, Israel), is an Arab public intellectual, political philosopher and author. Bishara, a Palestinian from the Upper Galilee, is presently the General Director of the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. Previously, he was a member of the Israeli legislature, the Knesset. Bishara won election as a member of the Balad Party, a group which represents the interests of the Palestinian community within Israel, and of which he was a founder. In 2007, Bishara's opposition to Israel's 2006 attack on Lebanon led to a public incitement campaign against him and demands that he be tried for treason, which ultimately drove him into exile.Bishara has since established himself in Qatar, where in addition to his academic and research endeavors (see above) he is a public intellectual active in the pan-Arab sphere and continues to write, as well as to issue new editions of some of his earlier works, including a 2012 re-publication of one of his most well-known Arabic books, On Civil Society. Additionally, Bishara helped to establish the \"New Arab\" media conglomerate, which includes a newspaper with online and print editions,and an online-only English version, as well as a television station, which launched in 2014. Politically, Bishara has been identified with both Marxism and with the anti-sectarian, enlightenment ideals of Arab nationalism. In this regard, he is the successor to Tawfik Ziad."@en }
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- Azmi_Bishara abstract "Azmi Bishara (Arabic: عزمي بشارة About this sound listen , Hebrew: עַזְמִי בִשַארָה About this sound listen , was born on 22 July 1956 in Nazareth, Israel), is an Arab public intellectual, political philosopher and author. Bishara, a Palestinian from the Upper Galilee, is presently the General Director of the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. Previously, he was a member of the Israeli legislature, the Knesset. Bishara won election as a member of the Balad Party, a group which represents the interests of the Palestinian community within Israel, and of which he was a founder. In 2007, Bishara's opposition to Israel's 2006 attack on Lebanon led to a public incitement campaign against him and demands that he be tried for treason, which ultimately drove him into exile.Bishara has since established himself in Qatar, where in addition to his academic and research endeavors (see above) he is a public intellectual active in the pan-Arab sphere and continues to write, as well as to issue new editions of some of his earlier works, including a 2012 re-publication of one of his most well-known Arabic books, On Civil Society. Additionally, Bishara helped to establish the \"New Arab\" media conglomerate, which includes a newspaper with online and print editions,and an online-only English version, as well as a television station, which launched in 2014. Politically, Bishara has been identified with both Marxism and with the anti-sectarian, enlightenment ideals of Arab nationalism. In this regard, he is the successor to Tawfik Ziad.".