Fatiha Azdu – trained journalist
The Lebanese psychologist Mustafa Al-Hijazi, author of the famous book “Social Backwardness: An Introduction to the Psychology of the Oppressed Man,” passed away at the age of 88.
The deceased was known for his victory for the Palestinian cause and his standing with the resistance in Gaza, where he said in an interview with Al Jazeera, “The Al-Aqsa flood changed the equations, changed the rules of the game, and demonstrated the Palestinian right to exist through the amazing achievements of the resistance.”
Hegazy recorded that “this operation astonished those near and far in its strength of planning, its excellence in the revolution, and its innovations in implementation to restore the right to life and existence, as oppression and waste remain transient no matter how long it takes,” noting that “the progress of the resistance in Gaza is the most eloquent lesson in that.”
In light of the psychology of the oppressed and betrayed Arab person, the late Lebanese thinker affirmed that “peoples may be colonized or subjugated by external forces or internal tyrannical rule, but they are not defeated, as it is sufficient for them to have leadership capable of leading the battle for their liberation in order for them to rise up and be surprised.” Everyone is in her revolution to regain her dignity and her right to existence and existence.”
The speaker considered that “the apparent manifestations of oppression and waste never achieve self-reliance. The people’s life energies and their right to exist remain latent and boiling inside until they have leadership that believes in their rights and knows how to lead the masses in their revolution.”
The late psychologist also criticized the ostensible reading of peoples’ complacency and considered it “wrong and misleading. Arab sociologists and others did not study the Palestinian people from within in order to discover their latent living powers,” highlighting that they “touch the surface of reality and they and intellectuals engage in studying Western thought, its issues and theses, as if it were certainty.” Universal scientific thought, this thought has been developed to understand the reality of Western man,” pointing at the same time to the need for tools and approaches specific to our Arab and Palestinian man.
It is worth noting that the deceased was born in the city of Sidon in 1936, and graduated in his educational attainment until he obtained a university degree in psychology from the Egyptian Ain Shams University in 1960. Four years after that date, he traveled to Britain to learn about child and youth care institutions and various scientific experiments, before He obtained a diploma in clinical criminology from the French University of Lyon in 1965, then a doctorate in psychology from the same university in 1967.
