Book Reviews
Book Reviews
‘Kite Runner’ author pens tribute to refugees who die fleeing war
September 5th, 20180 LONDON — “Kite Runner” author Khaled Hosseini urged world leaders to “act with compassion” towards refugees as he launched his new book inspired by a Syrian...
Arab American doctor who uncovered Flint Water Crisis writes memoir
July 6th, 20180 FLINT — Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, known as the primary whistleblower in the Flint water crisis, documented her personal experience of seeking proof of lead poisoning in...
Young Arab American on track to becoming a professional author
May 25th, 20180 By Sarah Kominek DEARBORN - Maya Audi, a 15-year-old sophomore at Dearborn High School, has her eyes set on becoming an author. In April 2016, Audi and her......
Palestinian American poet rises in the ranks on Amazon while still in high school
January 5th, 20180 DALLAS, TEXAS — Waseem Nabulsi, an 18-year-old senior at St. Mark's School of Texas, a private, nonsectarian college-preparatory boys' day school for...
New Syrian cookbook features century-old traditional recipes
March 29th, 20130 A new cookbook titled, Sitto's Kitchen: A Treasury of Syrian Family Recipes Taught from Mother to Daughter for Over 100 Years features century old Syrian recipes. It......
Book chronicles challenges of Muslim Americans in post 9/11 era
February 22nd, 20130 The book, In Search of a Base by Jamal Fawaz, M.D. chronicles the challenges facing Muslim Americans in the years following 9/11. Personal and professional views on...
The Islamophobia Industry
December 8th, 20120 By Joseph Richard Preville Islamophobia is a real problem that needs to be considered in the same light as racism, homophobia and anti-Semitism, says Nathan Lean,......
A refugee from a refugee camp
December 4th, 20100 Children of Catastrophe: Journey from a Palestinian Refugee Camp to America Written by Jamal Kanj Paperback: 192 pages, Garnet Publishing; 1st edition (October 15,...FILM: Where can we look for peace?
EthnoGraphic Media (EGM) appears to have released its new documentary right on cue. Now that the resurrected Israeli/Palestinian peace talks have once again become......
Why do they hate us?
Faith Misplaced: The Broken Promise of U.S.-Arab Relations 1820-2003. Ussama Makdisi PublicAffairs, June 22, 2010."Why do they hate us?" It is probably the most...New book assembles eyewitness accounts from Mavi Marmara
NEW YORK — A growing number of activists is contradicting the claims of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) regarding the Gaza Freedom Flotilla debacle in May, including......
“The Future of Islam”
Some books have perfect timing. This is one of them. According to a recent Gallup World Religion Survey, a majority of Americans have little or no knowledge about...Zionism’s destabilizing force: “Israeli Exceptionalism” reviewed
In his new book "Israeli Exceptionalism: The Destabilizing Logic of Zionism," M. Shahid Alam successfully argues that the moral force behind the Zionist movement is a......
Groundbreaking study examines Arab Americans
December 24th, 20090 This is an excerpt from the newly published book,"Citizenship and Crisis: Arab Detroit After 9/11," by the Detroit Arab American Study Research Team, of the University...A struggle for the soul of Saudi Arabia
"Robert Lacey, Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists, and the Struggle for the Soul of Saudi Arabia" (Viking, 2009) Robert Lacey is one of......
Book casts new light on Palestine’s ethnic cleansing
October 7th, 20090 A Palestinian boy flashes a victory sign as he holds a stone during a protest near the Nahal Oz crossing between Israel and the northern Gaza Strip September 16,...Book review: Must-read about the nuclear mess
Stephanie Cooke's "In Mortal Hands"In an era when corporate media, corporate politicians and corporate military men gang up together and denounce and threaten other......
Good place to start learning about Iran
Robert Baer's "The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower" Iran is obviously a key player in the Middle East. The many references within other...Disaster of the free market
Not many economists make much clarity these days, and the general run of the mill economists who populate the majority of political and business positions seem to be......
Imperial domination for resources
March 28th, 20090 "American Raj: Liberation or Domination? – Resolving the Conflict Between the West and the Muslim World" Eric S. Margolis Key Porter Books, Toronto, 2008. In...Novella serves as historical record of ‘Naqba’
Khirbet Khizeh, by S. Yizhar, Ibis Editions, 1949,translated from Hebrew by Nicholas de Lange and Yaacob Dweck. While Israel, as a collective entity, continues to......
The Struggle For Palestine: Hamas vs. Fatah
I'm not sure where to start with this volume — other than to say it is a history so out of context and so biased in its language that it is essentially meaningless....Maher Arar: Monia Mazigh’s story
Monia Mazigh. Hope & Despair. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2008 When Canadian citizen Maher Arar was shipped off by the United States to Syria to be tortured,......