Writings
Mallat is the author or editor of over thirty-five books, and has published dozens of scholarly articles and book chapters in English, French and Arabic around the world. He is a frequent contributor to Arabic, French and English dailies and served as op-ed consultant and legal editor for The Daily Star (Beirut) in 1996-1998 and in 2009-2010. He is a regular columnist in al-Nahar (Beirut), al-Hayat (London), The Daily Star (Beirut), Al-Ahram (Cairo), L'Orient-Le Jour (Beirut), and was guest columnist in the New York Times's blog Line of Fire during the Hizbullah-Israel war in July–August 2006. He views himself as the eclectic disciple of a number of twentieth century 'maverick thinkers'. He draws on the encyclopaedic, articulate understanding of society by French banker and sociologist Robert Fossaert; the conceptualisation of the courts' role in society in the works of John Hart Ely and the American constitutional tradition, the progressive humanism of Lebanese leader Kamal Jumblat; the aggiornamento of the Islamic legal tradition by the Iraqi Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr; and Gilles Deleuze's creative, multi-layered philosophy.
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