The controversial thinker Nasr Hamed Abu Zeid arrived to Beirut as head of the Arab Institute for Renewing Thought, which was inaugurated yesterday. More than 100 thinkers, researchers and academics have come from Europe and the U.S. to join Zeid in launching the institute.


Nasr Hamed Abu Zeid announced that the goals of the institute include research, publication of educational curricula and translation. But he stated that the end goal is changing reality.