Why is it necessary to defend Salman Rushdie? / Anouar Abdallah -- On the subject of Rushdie / Etel Adnan -- Even the sun -- / Adonis -- The Rushdie affair in France / Farid Aèchoun -- Is the fatwa a fatwa? / Sadik J. Al-Azm -- Rushdie, the traitor / Aziz Al-Azmeh -- Escaping from both "organized" oppression and "diffuse" oppression / Bouland Al-Haïdari -- Concerning repression, liberty, and the affirmation of the right to be different / Eduard Al-Kharrat -- Night / Omar Amirallay & Mohammed Mallas -- Concerning the Rushdie affair / Mahshid Amir-Shahy -- Appeal of Iranian artists & intellectuals -- Back to the Rushdie affair once more/ Mohammed Arkoun -- Freedom / Aïcha Arnaout -- Rushdie on the edge ofthe abyss between East and West / Liana Badr -- The sanctification of the patriarchate : outline of a theory of intolerance in religion and family / Halim Barakat -- The metaphors for God / Salim Barakat -- The combat between the demon and fire / Abbas Baydoun -- Hello, Salman Rushdie / Riad H. Beïdas -- Theft of fire / Tahar Bekri -- The end of an illusion / Rabah Belamri -- The target of the fatwa / Murat Belge -- The liberty of the word / Emna Belhadi Yehyia -- Islam and literature / Jamel Eddine Bencheikh -- Verse of the mirrors / Mohammed Bennis -- Rushdie, or the textual question / Fethi Benslama -- New human illness : fictionalizing Salman Rushdie and his critics / Reda Bensmaïaa -- Bring open to the imaginary / Zhor Ben Chamsi -- For Rushdi / Tahar Ben Jelloun -- Respect for freedom / Khédija Ben Mahmoud Cherif -- Mourning, sorrow! / Latifa Ben Mansour -- Literary form / Mohammed Berrada -- Concerning a memory : of a photo of Salman Rushdie, with eyes as if painted in a miniature, and with his right hand raised to his lips / Kamal Boullata --The transformation of the past / Abdesselame Cheddadi -- For Salman Rushdie / Andrée Chedid -- They want me dead / Mahmoud Darwish -- It's time to reverse the condemnation of Salman Rushdie / Hichem Djaït -- The solitude of King Salomon / Assia Diebar -- Tatou / Hanan El Cheikh -- Concerning Salman Rushdie : notes for a project of secularization -- Driss El Yazami -- Asselman / Ahmed Esssyad -- Against / Nabile Farès -- Exile / Safa Fathi -- A point of view on the ordeal of Salman Rushdie / Soleiman Fayyad -- For Rushdie / Djaial Gandieih -- Behiya / Moncef Ghachem -- Our neighbor Salman Rushdie / Karim Ghassim -- Sheikh Bedreddin / Nidim Gürsel -- No one among us can wash his hands of this friend's blood / Émile Habibi -- For Rushdie / Mohammed Harbi -- And also for them / Jamil Hatmal -- Twilight on the city wall / Ahmed Hegazi -- Practices of another time / Fereydoun Hoveida -- For Rushdie / Sonallah Ibrahim --For Salman Rushdie / Adil Jasouli -- The Adam of a free liberty / Salim Jay -- An open letter to Salman Rushdie, or 1,001 reasons to admire him/ Kadhim Jihad -- Ballad, or the Fatwa of the masters / Hélène Kafi -- The words of poets and wandering minstrels -- The hidden side of the Rushdie affair / Ramine Kamrane -- Letter to Salman Rushdie / Khemaïs Khayati -- So be it / Michel Khleifi -- The writer and the story / Elias Khoury -- The clock / Abdellatif Laabi -- Chaos / Bahauddeen Latif -- For Rushdie / Amin Maalouf -- Returning to a state of law / Chamille Mansour -- Waiting for another community / Abdelwahab Meddeb -- Traps / Misska -- The prey / Abdel Rahman Mounif -- How to read The Satanic verses / Sami Naïr -- [etc.]