Revolutions of the Heart: Literary Cultural & Spiritual

Revolutions of the Heart is a genre-bending book where literature social activism and mysticism intersect. In this follow-up to Lababidis first essay collection Trial by Ink: From Nietzsche to Bellydancing (2010) the author is undergoing an inner change as is the world around him. The multifaceted meditations in Revolutions--essays poems aphorisms conversations and even fiction--explore the edifying power of art Islamophobia and its antidotes the Egyptian Revolution and its aftermath American popular culture and much else in our complex modern world.A series of rich conversations with Lababidi and his various provocative interlocutors shed more intimate light on the subjects under discussion. At times serious playful and seriously playful these exuberant exchanges chart the personal evolution of Lababidi from angst-ridden existentialist thinker besotted with the life of the mind to someone chastened drawn to Sufism and seeking to surrender before the primacy of spiritual life.On a political level as the work of an immigrant and Muslim (living in Trumps divided America and our wounded world) Revolutions is a book of hope and healing arguing for nuance and compassion as it attempts to present art as a form of cultural diplomacy and tool for transformation.