The Palestinian intellectual had Jewish influences at every stage in his life, but the exposure yielded only incurious and unsubtle positions
By ignoring the honor-shame dynamic in Arab political culture, is the West keeping itself from making headway toward peace?
The quest to rediscover the mysterious pianist Ignace Tiegerman led through Cairo, Italy, and the ghost of Bruno Schulz
The White House’s response to the anti-Islam video is proof of the enduring influence of Edward Said’s ideas
A provocative Paris show of Orientalist art charts the European encounter with Sephardic Jewry
Raja Shehadeh’s new memoir joins a growing list of literary works on Palestinian life before Israel. But do they tell the whole story?
In his letters, Saul Bellow was thoughtful, eloquent, feisty—and quite possibly at his most Jewish
Barack Obama courted American Jews as a candidate, but the relationship is on the rocks
In his new memoir, Christopher Hitchens recounts the rich history of his public crusades
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