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September 11, Contemporaneous Observations from the Day, 20 Years After
(2021-09-07)
This is the text of a podcast on the 20th anniversary of September 11. It is based on journal entries made at the time. The focus is upon the actual day of September 11.
Intifada Deaths
(2021-05-15)
This is an analysis of data on the individual Palestinians who died during the first two years of the first Intifadah, which started in December, 1987. Analysis focuses upon day of death. Issues addressed include frequency ...
Review of Rubber Bullets, Power and Conscience in Modern Israel by Yaron Ezrahi, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1997.
(2021-09-01)
This is a review of the book Rubber Bullets by Yaron Ezrahi, published in the Middle East Journal, 1999. It discusses the thesis that Israeli has incorporated moral values into their military response to Palestinian ...
The Replacement Wars: Apocalyptic White Nationalism
(2021-04-18)
An analysis of nine manifestoes of The Replacement Wars ideology, and of three parallel European books. This is the belief that white people are being displaced from their own homelands and that their civilization is at ...
Book Review of Michael Dumper, the Politics of Sacred Space, The Old City of Jerusalem in the Middle East Conflict. Lynne-Rienner, 2002.
(2005)
This is a review of Michael Dumper's book, the Politics of Sacred Space, published in 2005 in the International Journal of Middle East Studies.
Review of H. V Savich, Cities in a Time of Terror. Space, Territory and Local Resilience. Routledge, 2008.
(2021-09-01)
This is a review of the book Cities in a Time of Terror by H. V. Savich. The author uses data to classify different kinds of targets and different kinds of attacks. There is a focus on why some cities are more resilient ...
Book Review of Elizabeth Boosahda, Arab-American Faces and Voices. The Origins of an Immigrant Community. University of Texas Press, 2003
(2004)
This is a 2004 book review of the book Arab-American Faces and Voices by Elizabeth Boosahda. It discusses the first wave of Lebanese immigrants who began to arrive in Massachusetts. The book is quite rich with details ...
Review of Gershom Gorenberg, The End of Days. Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount. Free Press, 2001.
(Middle East Journal, 2001, 2021-09-01)
This book discusses the different types of millennial thinking, drawing distinctions between religious thinking and political extremism.
Henry Ford, the McGuffey Readers, and the Jews. The Baldwin Thesis
(2021-06-28)
Neil Baldwin wrote a book entitled Henry Ford and the Jews. His opening thesis is that Henry Ford learned Anti-Semitism from reading the McGuffey Readers and that that exposure explains Ford's thinking. Ford's newspaper, ...
Burying Jihadis. Bodies Between State, Territory, and Identity
(2019)
This is a book review. The book focuses upon cases of terrorism in which the assailants were killed and what happened to their bodies. There is a discussion of international law and how those laws are applied in such cases.