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Book Reviews

The End of Stationarity

Winners and losers in the time of climate change

By Neil Bhatiya

Fall 2016


A Moroccan Love Letter

Exploring human complexities in a multi-ethnic land

By Helen Mackreath

Summer 2016


The Problem with Secularism

How the modern nation-state got religion wrong.

By Sophie Chamas

Spring 2016


Remembrance of Things Past

A turbulent Middle East through a child’s eyes.

By Jonathan Guyer

Winter 2016


Cover of Fields of Blood by Karen Armstrong

Fields of Blood

Does religion cause violence? Or is it just our human nature?

By Sophie McBain

Fall 2015


Cover of Answering the Call by Abdullah Al-Arian

Answering the Call

The rise of the Islamist movement in Egypt.

By Samer S. Shehata

Fall 2015


Cover of Discontent and Its Civilizations by Mohsin Hamid

Discontent and Its Civilizations

An exploration of discontent in Lahore, New York, and London.

By Rozina Ali

Fall 2015


Myths of the Oil Boom

A case for shaking the oil habit.

By Neil Bhatiya

Summer 2015


The Rise of the Islamic State

An investigation of the chaos in Iraq and Syria.

By Nabeel Khoury

Summer 2015


Counting Islam

A look at the ups and downs of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood.

By Amy Hawthorne

Summer 2015


My Promised Land

A dehumanizing portrait of Palestinians from an Israeli Liberal.

By Matthew Berkman

Spring 2015


World Order

Circling the globe with Henry Kissinger.

By Tarek Osman

Spring 2015


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