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Niall Ferguson's vision of 9/11 from the perspective of 25 years hence was fascinating [Sept. 11]. He was wise to note that elections are not a panacea for the problems of the Islamic world. Ferguson's vision of the U.S. restored to relevance by old-fashioned economic transformation was...
Changing the Middle East Calling Max Boot's "Second Opinion" rebuttal of Ferguson's story an example of straw-man argumentation would be an insult to straw men everywhere [Sept. 11]. No credible analyst of the Middle East believes that democracy is not preferable to the tyranny of Islamic fundamentalism...
"In nearly 40 novels and a dozen story collections, [Mahfouz] has dealt with the social and political upheavals Egypt has experienced during his lifetime. His main contribution, says Sasson Somekh, a visiting professor of Arabic literature at Princeton, is the 'creation of a new Egyptian style' that combines the narrative...
• You've Come Only a Little Way, Baby Bans on foreign, Kurdish and even some ancient Persian names for newborns have been around since the Islamic revolution but are now letting up slightly
Apparently, Ahmadinejad is not so alone. But what was going on? In Iran, I associate Holocaust skepticism with anti-Westernism and Islamic fundamentalism; with confrontational people who deny Israel's right to exist and whose violently anti-Israel attitudes overlap with anti-Semitism in such a way that it's...