From time to time: discursive essays of a Lebanese sociologist
"In this collection of Essays, written over the span of 40 years, efforts are made to suspend the imposing strictures of my scientific and scholarly discipline which often call upon us to be rigorous and dispassionate in our exploration of societal problems. By freeing myself from such exacting demands, I could write more engagingly and, hence, in more vivid and graphic prose. Though the collection is discursive, it is, hopefully, more intuitive and readable. At the least, it is less taxing to the sensibilities of the ordinary reader"