A Thousand and One Voices

El País/Aguilar, 1998

In 1998, I published my book "A Thousand and One Voices" with El País/Aguilar and Círculo de Lectores. It consisted of 16 conversations with artists and thinkers from both sides of the Mediterranean. In the book, I addressed the challenges Arab societies face in the context of globalization. Eleven years later, what I wrote—sometimes despite my best efforts—remains relevant.

I have decided to upload the interviews from "A Thousand and One Voices" to the internet. The download is free.

Islam is once again seen as the enemy of the West, as a hostile world, stuck in the past with no answers to today's problems. Jordi Esteva, with his book "A Thousand and One Voices" (El País/Aguilar), aims to shatter this view through a journey through sixteen voices, revealing a much more complex reality: that of the societies of our immediate South, which are undergoing profound upheavals as they adapt to globalization.

“A Thousand and One Voices” aims to give us a much more diverse and plural vision of that world which has become almost synonymous with fanaticism. To this end, it has sought out the voices that fight from civil society, from jurists or sociologists to writers and filmmakers, without forgetting the many women who fight for greater freedom.