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  • Mosaic of Jesus at the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna, Italy.(Wikimedia Commons)
    Mosaic of Jesus at the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna, Italy.(Wikimedia Commons)
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    Jesus Was a Rebel and a Bandit. What Made Him Also the Christian Son of God?

    Reza Aslan’s powerful new ‘Zealot’ paints a vivid, accessible portrait of Jesus as a Jewish nationalist

    byAdam Kirsch
  • A scene from All-American Muslim.(Adam Rose/Discovery Communications LLC)
    A scene from All-American Muslim.(Adam Rose/Discovery Communications LLC)
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    Dearborn in the USA

    The new TLC reality show All-American Muslim doesn’t do enough to display the theological and intellectual diversity of Islam in the U.S.

    bySohrab Ahmari
  • (La caverne aux livres by gadl / Alexandre Duret-Lutz; some rights reserved.)
    (La caverne aux livres by gadl / Alexandre Duret-Lutz; some rights reserved.)
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    On the Bookshelf

    Levantine lives, stone synagogues, faithful feminists, minority Muslims, and Jewish jokes

    byJosh Lambert
  • Concrete barriers at the entrance to a village on the Israeli-Lebanese border.(Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)
    Concrete barriers at the entrance to a village on the Israeli-Lebanese border.(Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)
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    Bordering on Malicious

    The new Words Without Borders anthology of writing from the Middle East is marred by a key omission

    byAdam Kirsch
  • The Palestinian Ambassador to the Arab League.(Khaled Desouki/AFP/Getty Images)
    The Palestinian Ambassador to the Arab League.(Khaled Desouki/AFP/Getty Images)
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    What They Talk About When They Talk About Gaza

    Your Flotilla opinion round-up

    byMarc Tracy
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