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It's no surprise that the first thing Hugo Chávez offers me as we sit down for an interview is a cup of coffee. Chávez is a renowned caffeine fanatic, known for downing as many as two dozen small cups a day. Venezuelans speculate that it's one...
To me, Naguib Mahfouz, who died last week at 94, was a true hero in this Islamophobic age, the sort of brilliant, embattled writer and public intellectual who has almost ceased to exist. Prolific and serene, Naguib-bey stood his ground, which was Egypt. He did not leave, even to...
But Mahfouz did not always play the placid cultural observer. He was an early and vocal supporter of normalizing relations with Israel (some Arab countries banned his books in response.) His Children of Gabalawi, although set in modern times (it was published in 1959), features characters that loosely parallel figures...
The Iran Factor In his column on Iran's role in the Middle East conflict [July 24], Joe Klein wove speculation and conjecture into a grand theory that it is all George W. Bush's fault. We are at war with a fanatic totalitarian movement, the aim of which is...
Our special package scrutinizing the latest chapter in the Middle East conflict and various proposals for bringing peace to the region provoked impassioned responses. Many readers deplored the tactics being used by both sides and chastised the U.S. for failing to broker a deal that would curb the violence The...