[escenic_image id="5511958"] Joshua Craze and Mark Huband Hurst & Company, London 2009 There is perhaps no combination less familiar to the West’s own current cultural experience than the…

[escenic_image id="5511454"] Peter Maass Alfred A Knopf 2009 In The Pearl, the 1947 novella by the American novelist John Steinbeck, an impoverished Mexican diver named Kino scoops up an…

I was ten years old when the Saudi radio broadcasted news about the seizure of the Holy Mosque by dozens of armed men led by Juhayman al-Otaibi. The radio said that these men had announced the coming…

[escenic_image id="5510965"]The place: The courtyard of the Holy Mosque in Mecca. The time: the dawn of the first of Muharram 1400 A.H, 20 November 1979. The scene: Thousands of worshippers entering…

[escenic_image id="5510968"] Michael Kaplan and Ellen Kaplan Penguin Group 2006 Everything is subject to testing including the intangible. Michael and Ellen Kaplan argue that probability is a tool…

In fact, resorting to the Internet was not an original approach on the part of these parties and forces as much as it was a pragmatic one. It was a reaction to the success of youth groups on the…

[escenic_image id="5510770"] Mounira Jamjoom Arab Scientific Publishers, Inc. Bold education is the pillar among which civilizations are built. Mounira Jamjoom emphasizes this notion with great…

[escenic_image id="5510475"] Avi Shlaim Penguin November 2008 In Lion of Jordan, the Iraqi-born historian Avi Shlaim tracks the life of King Hussein through three perspectives: the traits,…

[escenic_image id="5510021"] Paul Krugman Penguin Books 2008 Paul Krugman's book, The Return of Depression Economics, is an overview of various economies at different points in history. Krugman’s…

[escenic_image id="559460"] Abdallah Al-Arawy The Arab Cultural Centre 2008 Sunna and the Reform Process by Abdallah Al-Arawy is the author's reply to a message sent by a Muslim woman. This woman…