Summer Reading

Although there are still two weeks left of school before I head off to Lebanon, I began my summer reading over the weekend.  I picked up Mohsin Hamid’s new novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist at the Strand.  I only read a couple of chapters on Sunday, but I couldn’t resist finishing the book today.  The story [...]

Resurrecting Empire

I just finished reading Rashid Khalidi’s Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America’s Perilous Path in the Middle East. Khalidi is the Edward Said Chair in Arab Studies at Columbia University and has received lots of media attention for some of his supposedly controversial views. In this book, Khalidi analyzes the challenges facing the [...]