Following Mubarak's fall, websites known as the halls of shame were created to highlight the role of similar columnists in Egypt during the Mubarak era, a fate that regime-loyal Gulf intellectuals are no doubt keen to avoid.
Another, nicer way of putting it is that Gray bridged the gulf between intellectual drama and popular drama.
Reviewing it in Guardian Review, Gavin Francis wrote: In 1959 CP Snow delivered his famous Rede lecture on "The Two Cultures", in which he lamented the gulf between intellectual elites fluent either in the sciences or in the humanities, but all too rarely in both.
On Capitol Hill, some of the left's fiercest firebrands, including Marcy Kaptur, the congresswoman from the rust-belt city of Toledo, in Ohio, have become the Democrats' leading hawks.The question of the flag may be an indicator of the gulf between intellectuals and the rest of a frightened and increasingly patriotic country.
He was already questioning the gulf between African intellectuals and the audiences they sought.
We can now see how Kant thinks that our aesthetic experiences and judgments can bridge the gulf between our abstract, intellectual understanding of the requirements and conditions of morality and a palpable, sensuous representation of those requirements and conditions.
Following the end of the first gulf war, Makiya became the intellectual force behind the Iraqi opposition.
Another example: when the President cajoled BP into setting up a fund to compensate people damaged by the Gulf oil spill, a prominent conservative intellectual concluded that "American democracy is being dismantled, piece by piece, before our very eyes by the current administration in Washington".
In this polarized political environment, the religious vs. spiritual underpinning of each side's argument has created a deep gulf that cannot be bridged by intellectual arguments or "fact" presentations.
With the Oslo accords in 1993 came an in-gathering from the Palestinian diaspora, as intellectuals and businessmen rushed back from the United States, Europe, gulf states and elsewhere to join in building their national home.
