I’ve just finished reading Qurratulain Hyder’s River of Fire. Written in 1959 in Urdu, and translated into English by the author, this sprawling history of India is one of the classics of Indian literature. It has unfortunately gone fairly unnoticed in the United States, and I am not surprised. One feels that the translation should [...]
Here is a fascinating terror alert timeline showing what else was happening whenever the department of Homeland Security raised the terror alert level. Didn’t Tom Ridge ever read the story of “The Boy Who Cried Wolf!” when he was a kid?
I’m finally reading Mamdani’s book Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror (discussed previously here and here), and I was struck by his history of the term “fundamentalism,” taken largely from Karen Armstrong’s work: The term “fundamentalism” was invented in 1920 by the Rev. Curtis Lee Laws and was [...]