Excavations in Memory in Retrospect

The Center for Arab Unity Studies published the third edition of the book Excavations in Memory in Retrospect by Dr. Mohamed Abed El-Jabri.

This book presents a reading of a stage of the author’s personal life, which extends from early childhood to engaging in the “men’s corps”, not in the way of historical narration that adheres to chronology, but in a way that he likens to the “archaeological excavation” that aims to discover the artifacts that was able to resist the factors of decomposition and extinction. The facts of his life that he proves here are the facts that were saved from oblivion as artifacts, so they deserved the process of giving them meaning as data in memory that are linked to other data in one format, and interact with them.

These “excavations” include seven chapters and texts that El-Jabri wrote at the beginning of his youth, and then proved them without modification in the book. It also includes a comprehensive dialogue with the author, in which he addresses the most important issues raised by the “excavations.”