27 May, 2013
Mores and Moralities
Shereen El Feki offers a bold, wide-ranging, and even-handed analysis of sex, politics and religion in the Arab world.
Category: The Middle East
16 January, 2012
The Drama of Arab History
Margaret Litvin's Hamlet's Arab Journey examines the staging of Hamlet in the Middle East.
4 April, 2011
Till We Have Built Jerusalem
Simon Sebag Montefiore's Jerusalem: The Biography excavates the sacred city's memories and historical multiplicity.
14 March, 2011
Baghdad Chassis
An exhibition of a car destroyed by a bomb in Baghdad provokes conversations about civilian suffering in war.
14 February, 2011
A Doubtful Genealogy
David Patterson's A Genealogy of Evil tries but fails to link persuasively Jihadism to Nazism.
15 June, 2008
The Value of Economic Shock and Awe
Iraq and The Three Trillion Dollar War by Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes
