Palestinian Popular Culture, UNESCO, and the Prospects for Peace
Stabbings aren’t a protest against settlements.
October 28, 2015
Michel Houellebecq’s Critique of Western Anomie
Imagining an Islamized France.
Michel Houellebecq’s novel Submission—recently translated into English—depicts a dystopian near future in which France undergoes Islamization. The protagonist, François, is a cynical and unhappy professor at the Sorbonne, which has recently become a Muslim institution. Although the book raised predictable cries of Islamophobia, not to mention death threats against the author, Benjamin Haddad argues that it is an attack not so much on Islam as on modern, secular, and liberal European society:
October 28, 2015
Iran May Fulfill Ayatollah Khomeini’s Dream: The End of Pax Americana
But will there be an “End of America” conference this year?
Michel Houellebecq’s Critique of Western Anomie
Imagining an Islamized France.
Biblical Puns in the Garden of Eden
Lost in translation.
In the Aftermath of a Storm, an Ancient Winepress Is Discovered in Israel
In the historic center of Israelite wine production.