{"product_id":"revolutions-of-the-heart-literary-cultural-spiritual-9781725264946","title":"Revolutions of the Heart: Literary, Cultural, \u0026 Spiritual","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRevolutions of the Heart\u003c\/em\u003e is a genre-bending book where literature, social activism, and mysticism intersect. In this follow-up to Lababidi's first essay collection, \u003cem\u003eTrial by Ink: From Nietzsche to Bellydancing\u003c\/em\u003e (2010), the author is undergoing an inner change, as is the world around him. The multifaceted meditations in \u003cem\u003eRevolutions\u003c\/em\u003e--essays, poems, aphorisms, conversations, and even fiction--explore the edifying power of art, Islamophobia and its antidotes, the Egyptian Revolution and its aftermath, American popular culture, and much else in our complex modern world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA series of rich conversations with Lababidi, and his various provocative interlocutors, shed more intimate light on the subjects under discussion. At times serious, playful, and seriously playful, these exuberant exchanges chart the personal evolution of Lababidi from angst-ridden existentialist thinker, besotted with the life of the mind, to someone chastened, drawn to Sufism and seeking to surrender before the primacy of spiritual life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn a political level, as the work of an immigrant and Muslim (living in Trump's divided America and our wounded world), \u003cem\u003eRevolutions\u003c\/em\u003e is a book of hope and healing, arguing for nuance and compassion, as it attempts to present art as a form of cultural diplomacy and tool for transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Resource Publications (CA)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/31\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781725264946\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.57d","brand":"Yahia Lababidi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36667242479772,"sku":"9781725264946","price":24.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_b37917fb-6cd4-4d6a-ada0-d6f34c34ecfe.jpg?v=1603914392","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/revolutions-of-the-heart-literary-cultural-spiritual-9781725264946","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}