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On United Airlines Flight 93--out of Newark, scheduled for San Francisco, bound for history--34 passengers caught up on paperwork or dreamed their last dream. Four others were there on a mission. Forty-six minutes into the flight, one of them shouted in Arabic and brandished a bandolier of...
To the editors: Mark Adomanis’ comment, “Foreign Affairs” (Apr. 3), was alarming and contradictory on its own terms. Adomanis contends that “the world is too competitive a place to have students wasting a quarter of their college years�...
Mehdi Savalli eschews the rituals that bullfighters typically use to ward off gorings and other misfortunes. He doesn't pray to the Virgen de la Estrella; he doesn't stand in front of a homemade shrine of religious prints when he slips on his traje de luces, the ornate, sequined...
Ever looked out the window on a cold, wet day and dreamed of relocating to a gentler clime, where the sun smiles brightly, exotic flora perfume the air and the prices are forgiving? Tahir Shah did, and the result is The Caliph's House, a wry, energetic account of how...
"When I came here, my language was nothing. I could say hello. I could say 'How are you?' But my English was very weak. When I studied in Saudi Arabia, we didn't care about English. We had to take three years. There was no talking. We spoke Arabic in...