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Both Greene and Armstrong trained as Near Eastern archaeologists at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, where Stager taught for several years.
Damascus Nights heaves with charming characters, gripping tales, and local color. The reader can't but enjoy the down-to-earth, homespun appearance of its simple stories. But the novel has a calculated air of Oriental gloss; you can't escape the feeling that Schami is secretly laughing at you...
How do you warm up to a character at once high strung and low key? It takes patience, a virtue that Mark Salzman demonstrated in Iron and Silk, a 1986 account of the author's experiences in China. Now Salzman brings East and West together in The Soloist (Random House...
Frank Moore Cross, Emeritus Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages, served as the director of the Semitic Museum from 1974-1987 and as its curator from 1958-1961.
The claim of Peretz [surely not on the basis of his own knowledge] that Stager is an extraordinarily narrow specialist can be answered easily by drawing on the dossier collected to present to the President's ad hoc committee appointed to review his appointment to the Dorot Chair. A leitmotif...