Book Reviews
A close reading of the books that are making waves.
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Thursday, 16 May, 2013
From the first pages of this book, Michael Axworthy, a former diplomat who headed the British Foreign Office’s Iran Desk for two years, establishes himself as passionate about all things Iranian. His admiration, including for the way Iranians cook rice, provides thematic filigree throughout the book. In a sense, the book could be regarded as a long love letter to Iranians, including some of the least loveable ones among the country’s current rulers.
That aside, the book is of grea...
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Wednesday, 13 Mar, 2013
Until just a month ago few people had heard of Azizullah Khoshvaqt. Most of those who had heard knew him as just another of the 200,000 or so mullahs spread across the spectrum of Iranian life. To a smaller number, Khoshvaqt was an advisor to “Supreme Guide” Ali Khamenei. The two also had family bonds. One of Khoshvaqt’s daughters is married to one of Khamenei’s sons.
Now, however, a book presented as Khoshvaqt’s biography claims that he was more- much more. “Hidden Pearl” was ...
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Monday, 21 Jan, 2013
IRAN'S REVOLUTIONARY GUARD By: Steven O'Hern Published by Potomac Books, United States, 2013 271 pages For more than 30 years the Islamic Republic in Iran has been waging a...
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Saturday, 12 Jan, 2013
A Woman in the Crossfire: Diaries of the Syrian Revolution
By Samar Yazbek
Published by Haus Publishing, July 2012.
London, The Majalla - In a steamy University of Dam...
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Thursday, 20 Sep, 2012
JUSTICE AND THE ENEMY
Nuremberg, 9/11 and the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
By: William Shawcross
Published by: Public Affairs, New York, 2012
256 pages
During the US p...
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Sunday, 19 Aug, 2012
London, Asharq Al-Awsat- For the past half a century at least, Arab poetry has found its principal abodes in Iraq, Egypt and Lebanon. Anyone interested in contemporary Arab poetry ...
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Monday, 28 May, 2012
Patriot of Persia
Muhammad Mossadegh and a Tragic Anglo-American Coup
By Christopher De Bellaigue
300 pages
Published by Harper, New York and London 2012
When writing...
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Monday, 30 Apr, 2012
Have you heard of Fritdtjof Nansen? Well, what about Miread Corrigan or Carlos Lamas? No surprise if you haven’t heard of any of them, although they are all winners of the “mos...
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Ask any reporter worth his salt where he would wish to be these days and you are likely to hear: Syria.
Journalists know that they have to deal with two kinds of happenings: even...
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Sunday, 29 Jan, 2012
The future of blasphemy
Speaking of the Sacred In An Age of Human Rights
By: Austin Dacey
208 pages, $15
Published by: Continuum, 2012
After decades of being regarded a...
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