[1]نُشرت نسخة أولى من هذا المقال باللغة العربية.أنا ممتن بعمق للعزيزين فيرينا كوزمان ووسيم حداد على عملها الدقيق المثير للإعجاب على الترجمة الألمانية للمقال. صدرت النسخة العربية من هذه المقال في :
Najib George Awad, “RisālahʼīlaʼAhlī al-Masīḥīyyn: MasīḥīyyūSūrīyya was-SūʼālḤaūlDaūihim al-Mustaqbalī” (A Message to my Christian People: The Syrian Christians and the Question of their Futural Role) (Arabic) in Dimasheq, 4/5, 2013, pp. 39-45.
[2]Najib George Awad,
And Freedom Became a Public-Square: Political, Sociological and Religious Overviews on the Arab Christians and the Arabic Spring, (Muenster & Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2012), prt.2, chs. 3-4, app. 2; Najib G. Awad, “AmmaBaqi an-Nas fi Swriyyafahum al-aghlabiyyah as-sakinah” (And the Rest of the People in Syria are the Quiescent Majority) (Arabic), in
www.oxygen.com, N. 126, 1/5/2011; and N.G. Awad, “Nafs al-ʽUyūn al-Muballalah, Nafs al-Hawāʼ al-Māli
ḥ” (The same wet eyes, the same salty air) (Arabic), in
www.oxygen.com , N. 125, 1/4/2011; and N.G. Awad “al-Masi
ḥiyyūnwa al-Thawrah as-Sūriyyah: ʼAyyatMakhāūif Min al-Thawrah? ʼAyuNizāminSīyāsyy fi al-Mustaqbal?”(The Christians and the Syrian Revolution: Which Fears from the Rebellion? Which Political System in the Future?)(Arabic)in
The Arabic Spring and the Christians of the Middle East, MitriRaheb (ed.), Bethlehem: Diyar Publishers, pp. 113-127.
[3]كتبت عن مسألة العلمانية في العالم العربي وفي ضوء الربيع العربي في مكان آخر. أنظر:
Najib G. Awad, And Freedom Became a Public-Square, pt. 1, ch.2.
Charles Taylor, A Secular Age, (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2007); Charles Taylor, “Forward: What is Secularism?” in Secularism, Religion and Multicultural Citizenship, Geoffrey BrahmLevey and Tariq Modood (eds.), (Cambridge&New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. xi-xxii;Charles Taylor, “Why We Need a Radical Redefinition of Secularism,” in The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere, Judith Butler, Jürgen Habermas, Charles Taylor and Conrad West (eds.), (New York &Chichester: Columbia University Press, 2011), pp. 34-59;Charles Taylor, “Western Secularity,” in Rethinking Secularism, Craig Calhoun; Mark Juergensmeyer and Jonathan VanAntwerpen (eds.), (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 31-53; Olivier Roy, Holy Ignorance: When Religion and Culture Part Ways, Ros Schwartz (trans.), (London: Hurst & Company, 2010); andOlivier Roy, Secularism Confronts Islam, George Holoch (trans.), (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007),