Tag Archives: Middle East
Israel-Palestine: A Binary Fallacy
by Sarah Glidden, author of How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less (Vertigo, 2011) When I used to think about growing as a person, I visualized my life as a sort of graph: a steadily climbing, sometimes dipping line … Continue reading
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Kristof’s NYT piece, “Divorced Before Puberty”
This week, in a New York Times Op-Ed piece, Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Nicholas D. Kristof, who is also co-author of Half of the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Knopf, 2009), talks about an amazing new book, I Am Nujood, … Continue reading
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Why You’re Wrong About the Crusades
by Lars Brownworth, author of Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization (Crown, 2009). There are few words as controversial—or as misunderstood—as ‘crusade’. Those who doubt that need only remember nine years ago when President George … Continue reading
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Do We Live in a Borderless World?
Parag Khanna, author of The Second World: How Emerging Powers Are Redefining Global Competition in the Twenty-first Century, delivered a fascinating talk at this past summer’s TED Conference. At the crux of his speech, and the book, is a rejection of the notion of … Continue reading
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