Revolutions of the Heart is a genre-bending book where literature, social activism, and mysticism intersect.
On a political level, as the work of an immigrant and Muslim (living in Trump\'s divided America and our wounded world), Revolutions 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..
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.
A series of rich conversations with Lababidi, and his various provocative interlocutors, shed more intimate light on the subjects under discussion.
The multifaceted meditations in Revolutions --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.
In this follow-up to Lababidi\'s first essay collection, Trial by Ink: From Nietzsche to Bellydancing (2010), the author is undergoing an inner change, as is the world around him.
Revolutions of the Heart is a genre-bending book where literature, social activism, and mysticism intersect
