Mirror of the Arab World: a review
This is a review of Mirror of the Arab World: Lebanon in Conflict by Sandra Mackey. W. W. Norton. 2008. For more, please see Jonathan Mok's interview with the author. Why has the curse of...
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Makotai, Ancient Jews, and a 2500-year-old ship: globalization in an ancient world
YaleGlobal, the magazine of the Yale University Centre for Study of Globalization, describes globalization as a historical process that began with the first movement of people out of Africa into...
1948: a review
This is a review of 1948: The First Arab-Israeli War by Benny Morris. Yale University Press. 2008. In 1980's, a group of Israeli historians including Tom Segev of Haaretz (a daily Israeli newspaper),...
A warning to Writers: post-colonialism as opium
Writers, when they come to teach you the humanities, run away. The divorce of dignity and method afflicts and impairs every system of thought. Law, for example, ceases to serve the ends of providing...
Dating advice from an expert
An awkward boy is talking to two pretty girls he met at a coffee shop: can you imagine a more flinch-worthy scene? Our hero wears a red shirt that marks him as a proponent of “AIDS Day” in no...
A Possible Peace Between Israel and Palestine: A Review
This is a review of A Possible Peace Between Israel and Palestine: An Insider's Account of the Geneva Initiative by Menachem Klein, translated by Haim Watzman. Columbia University Press. 2007. We are...
People of the Book: a review
This is a review of Zachary Karabell's People of the Book: The Forgotten History of Islam and the West. John Murray. 2007. In Samuel Huntington’s The Clash of Civilizations, the author envisioned...