Mahdi Elmandjra
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Mahdi Elmandjra was a Moroccan futurologist, economist and sociologist. He is one of the founders of the International Federation for Future Studies. He predicted a number of events, the most importan
Mahdi Elmandjra
Clash of Civilizations
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The Clash of Civilizations is a thesis that people's cultural and religious identities will be the primary source of conflict in the post–Cold War world. The American political scientist Samuel P. Hun
Mahdi Elmandjra
…the clash of civilisations in his book "The first civilisation war" in 1992, that is, before Samuel Huntington, who used the same concept in his book "The clash of civilisations" issued in 1996. Mahdi Elmandjra also predicted the occurrence of the "Arab Spring", which he referred to in his writings under the name of "Intifada…
Cover of Samuel P. Huntington's 1996 book The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
Huntington at the 2004 World Economic Forum
Mohammad Khatami, reformist president of Iran (in office 1997–2005), introduced the theory of Dialogue Among Civilizations as a response to Huntington's theory.