The Vice President of Yarmouk University for Academic Affairs, Professor Mousa Rababah, sponsored the cultural meeting organized by the Al-Hussein Bin Talal Library and Abdul Hameed Shoman Cultural Forum, in which the Saudi author, translator and critic, Dr. Saad Al-Baze’e, spoke about the landmarks of modernity.

Al-Baze’e said that his book Milestones of Modernity includes texts of some Western thinkers, writers, critics and artists who contributed to the establishment and formulation of Western modernity, indicating that the texts in the book amount to sixty texts that extend over a knowledge area covering wide scientific fields from philosophy to plastic arts, music, literature, sociology, psychology, politics and history. He said that these texts represent a depiction of the landmarks of Western modernity, in an effort to introduce the Arab reader to those landmarks and texts and their authors. He then said that the book seeks to enable the reader to identify the texts themselves within their broader contexts, through their connection to each other, through introductions that introduce them linked to modernity.

At the end of the meeting, which was attended by the Director of the Library, Dr. Ahmed Abu Dalu, and moderated by Dr. Youssef Bakkar, an extensive discussion took place between Al-Baze’e and the attendees on the ideas and intellectual and cultural topics included in the book.