Yousef al-Asi al-Tawil

Born in Rafah on 16 April 1959, he studied philosophy at Ain Shams University in Cairo, graduating in 1983, and has been a member of the General Union of Palestinian Writers and Journalists, in its Emirates branch, since 1987. He ran a bookshop in Rafah from 1990 to 1994, selling books and preparing publications, and directed the media department and edited the magazine al-Salama of the Palestinian Civil Defence. His books, in Arabic, on the United States, Christian Zionism and Islamic thought, include The New Crusaders: The Eighth Campaign (1997), America: A History of Invasion and Terror (2010) and The Critical Tendency in the Philosophy of Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (2019).

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