It seemed for a long time that radical movements of the Left and Arab nationalists oppose each other. Nevertheless, alliances were formed by them that have fundamentally reshaped the political field in Palestine, Lebanon and Egypt.

Ali Shariati was one of the major intellectual forerunners of the Islam revolution in Iran who as mastering both Islam and Western philosophy has almost single handedly crossed the line between political Islam and the (secular) Left. His intellectual heritage begs for the question: may a credible Islam Left be formed/revived or political Islam becomes the servant of reactionary and imperialism supporting forces for good.

Afghanistan lives through a dangerous time of chance in the world now becoming multipolar, and faces chaos again. Anyhow, the perspective for parties on the middle term is not gloom here and in other countries in the 'Crisis' Crescent in Asia: they became indispensable elements in the region of extreme importance for global strategy teaming up with other non-governmental (tribal, ethnic, religious and civic) organizations.

Kristó Nagy István: Az ám, Hazám! Örökségünk, Trikolor Könyvkiadó Kft., Budapest, 2008.

The author living in Israel depicts the sources of the conflict and its expected outcomes in a historical essay making an "internal" but unbiased and factual point of view – embedding it in the domestic and international texture of the right shift in the Israeli society and its political elite.