All posts tagged "Middle East"
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Non-Fiction Reviews
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk
January 21, 2025The title of Fisk’s new work is a mocking one, taken from a campaign medal his...
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Iran
Roses & Bulbul Birds
August 15, 2024What’s intriguing about the dreadful psychology of Muslim, particularly Shiite [read Hizbollah] fundamentalism, is that aspect...
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Art
Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
July 15, 2024The Metropolitan Museum exhibition charts the fascinating, if complex, process of cultural transformation that took place...