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Category Archives: Book Review
Insights Into Shi’ite Islam
I have come across this book by photographer Hans Georg Berger, Einsicht – Drei Reisen in die innerste Welt des schiitischen Islam (Insight – Three Journeys Into the Innermost World of Shi’a Islam, edited by Boris von Brauchitsch and Saeid … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Journalism, Uncategorized
Tagged Boris von Brauchitsch, Hans Georg Berger, Isfahan, Mashhad, Muzaffar al-Din Shah Qajar, Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar, photography, Qom, Saeid Edalatnejad
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Peace in the Qur’an
In his latest book on Muhammad, Juan Cole, Professor of History at Michigan University in Ann Arbor, has suggested interesting theories about the overall peaceful intent of the Qur’an. In times of intensified Islamophobia not only in the US his … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Islam
Tagged Byzantine Empire, Christianity, Juan Cole, Judaism, Muhammad, Qur'an, Sasanian Empire
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How Finkelstein Broke the Trauma Bond?
Finkelstein is not just a public intellectual, however: there is something too explosive about the subjects he writes about for that category to completely contain him. He acts out a role that is Grecian in its cosmopolitanism, Abrahamic in its … Continue reading
Revisionist Rewriting of 9th Century Arabic Enlightenment
The self-proclamation of a terrorist organization as new “Islamic State” and “caliphate” led by an individual who has changed his name to al-Baghdadi has not been met with general enthusiasm or sympathy in the Islamic world, not even in Salafi … Continue reading
No Place To Hide
At the outset of his new book, Glenn Greenwald quotes Senator Frank Church’s 1975 statement, who was critically assessing intelligence activities in the U.S., “The United States government has perfected a technological capability that enables us to monitor the message … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, USA
Tagged Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, NSA, total surveillance
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