The soldiers we see in Iraq, looking more and more like cyborgs with their night vision headgear, and the soldiers who won the great tank battles of Desert Storm because of their night vision capability, could not have carried out their missions were it not for a son of Iraq named Abu Ali Hasan al [...]
Read More...Parallels too closely drawn invite intellectual train wrecks, but it might not be too far a reach to connect yesterday’s Supreme Court decision overturning the District of Columbia’s strict handgun control law to our gunpoint involvement with Arab society.
Every Arab civilization since the advent of Islam in the 7th Christian century has been forced to [...]
It’s interesting how eager both the left and the right wings are to pull the trigger on Scott McClellan, the former White House spokesman, who has written a book confirming many of our worst suspicions about the Bush Administration.
If he knew his bosses were lying about Iraq and Valerie Plame, the CIA undercover agent whom [...]
In an article entitled The Modernists of Al Andalus (May issue of
Istanbul Literary Review) I suggest that modernist English language poetry owes a significant debt to the medieval Arab and Jewish poets of Al Andalus, Arab Spain.—DM
This is the key to the figures in this famous painting, The Declaration of Independence, by John Trumbull.
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The relatedness of things has always fascinated me, perhaps because where others collect objects I collect images. When my wife, Marilyn, and I lived in Arlington, Virginia, some of the recent immigrants who worked in our [...]