Rezgar Akrawi | |
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Born | 1966 (age 57–58) Akra, Iraq |
Nationality | Iraq, Danish |
Notable work | founder of the "Al-Hewar Al-Mutamaden – Modern discussion foundation" and the term: “electronic left” |
Awards | Ibn Rushd Prize for Free Thought representing the "Al-Hewar Al-Mutamaden – Modern discussion foundation". |
Rezgar Akrawi (Arabic: رزكار عقراوي) is an Iraqi writer, author, and journalist. He was born in 1966 in Kurdistan region of Iraq,[1] in Akra city. He was one of the leading cadres in the Iraqi Communist Party from 1984 until 1990, after which he participated with the Communist Current Organization until 1992 before becoming one of the leaders of the Iraqi Worker Communist Party from 1993 until 2000. He was the first to introduce the concept of the electronic left.[2] And the winner of the Ibn Rushd Prize for Free Thought in 2010 in the name of his website "Al-Hewar Al-Mutamaden – Modern discussion"[3] in addition to being the coordinator of the Center for Studies and Research of Marxism and the Left. He has dozens of studies, research, and intellectual and political articles published in several Arab magazines such as Al-Hayat and Regai Kurdistan, in addition to his research published on the civilized dialogue website and in a large number of websites.[4]
Rezgar Akrawi put forward the concepts of the Electronic Left[5] (E-Left) (Arabic: اليسار الإلكتروني)[6] since the beginning of 2002 in various articles, dialogues and interviews. To be a modern, scientific, democratic concept of the left, its political speech, its organization, its work, its management and its leadership. To be compatible with the development technological, cognitive and human rights in various fields and the great change that has occurred in the mechanisms of dealing, interaction, organization and awareness of the masses due to the great technological and information revolution.
According to his description, capitalism develops itself over the course of a minute in all fields, and to replace it with more humane and fair systems, the left must be developed in thought and action in a very large way. Thus, the term "electronic left" is a designation that presents a new concept of the left in the current situation concurrent with continuous development. As well as to develop its work and struggle for a better, superior and better political, economic, social and environmental option that is possible for the human being, similar to the new common terms nowadays such as (electronic administration, e-government...etc.), which are developmental concepts of the previous concepts. Just as the term, e-government expresses government with the same recognized foundations, but with a significant change in work mechanisms through management, leadership, transparency, and the great use of scientific and technical development. The term e-left does not differ from the classic left in terms of principles, but it aims to build a new way in managing and organizing leftist movements.[7]
The Electronic Left Movement considers that communication networks have led to a great development in the cognitive and democratic awareness, and therefore it sees the need to introduce new and flexible organizational mechanisms among the forces of the left, where the movement presents its ideas:
A large group of Arab women writers and men writers participated in the dialogue about the electronic left, most notably: Mohammed Ali Muqalad,[10] Farid Al-Olaybi,[11] Abdulrahman Al-Nudha, Fouad Al-Nimri,[12] Uthri Mazigh, Bashir Al-Hamidi, Mohammed Dower, Mohammed Youssif Baker, Sabah Kanji, Maryam Najma,[13] Dana Jalal and Simon Khoury.
Modern discussionwas – Al-Hewar Al-Mutamaden established in 2001 to be one of the first and largest forms of organized electronic left struggle in the Arab world,[14] which proposed a new form of modern leftist struggle, making optimal use of information technology, the multi-platform left, openness, respect for opinion and the other opinion, and renunciation of the monopoly of absolute truth. In addition, civilized dialogue put forward a contemporary concept of the left in accordance with the technical, cognitive and human rights development, towards more openness, pluralism, effectiveness and interaction with the rapid development at all levels.
Modern discussion is a voluntary and self-financed organization. It publishes through it many thinkers, writers and women writers from different countries of the Arab world and in various disciplines.[15]