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| | Dar-al-Hayat: Returning to the Intelligentsia | The Agonist |
 | | This comes as the members of the intelligentsia are becoming more and more indistinguishable members of the public and as the novelist, poet, critic, doctor, university professor, intellectual and journalist abandon their role as opinion makers. |
 | | Returning to the intelligentsia is a return to consciousness, and the diversification of symbolic figures, points of view and moving across the spectrum are intellectual and cultural demands, more important than the political. |
 | | The intelligentsia, however, will not be able to accomplish their desired role before resolving the focal point of friction with the authorities, namely, the freedom of expression. |
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