The term individualism has had a long history in western thought.

This meeting is held for the purpose of contemplating self-knowing and knowing the Other. If self-knowing requires a form of separation, knowing the Other requires something of its opposite; of communication, a deep empathy.

Arab intellectuals and practitioners of translation in the age of globalization are exerting strenuous efforts to initiate an organized large-scale translation activity from Arabic into foreign languages and vice versa, activity inspired by the sweeping force of cross-cultural in