| MESH has asked its members to make recommendations for summer reading. These are their choices, along with their (sometimes abbreviated) comments. For the full comments, visit here: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mesh/2008/07/summer_reading_2008/ | ||
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| The Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising ...
by Yaroslav Trofimov Recommended by Daniel Byman: Yaroslav Trofimov has written a fast-paced, informative, and tight book about how Saudi zealot... | The Arab Center: The Promise of Moderation
by Marwan Muasher $16.53 Recommended by Robert Satloff: Arab principals rarely write their memoirs, and such books are even rarer in English. In thi... | Koran, Kalashnikov, and Laptop: The Neo-Tal...
by Antonio Giustozzi Recommended by Mark T. Clark: Antonio Giustozzi's book traces the emergence of the neo-Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan af... |
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| The Much Too Promised Land: America's Elusi...
by Aaron David Miller $26.00 Recommended by Steven A. Cook: When I saw Aaron David Miller at the Council on Foreign Relations shortly after his book was... | Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the M...
by Michael B. Oren $12.21 Recommended by Josef Joffe: Michael Oren's book should be on the shelf of anybody who takes a serious interest in the histo... | The Reluctant Fundamentalist
by Mohsin Hamid $10.08 Recommended by Martin Kramer: It being summer, I finally found time to read Mohsin Hamid’s novella, The Reluctant Fundament... |
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| The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism: From Sa...
$26.39 Recommended by Philip Carl Salzman: An academic colleague said to me that, before Israel, Muslims and Jews rubbed along wel... | Everyday Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam ...
by Bernard Rougier $22.00 Recommended by Michael Young: Rougier’s thesis is that trans-national militant Islam is now so dominant in the camp that “a... | Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middl...
by Robin Wright $15.79 Recommended by J. Scott Carpenter: Robin Wright whisks the reader from Morocco to Iran introducing the reader to the men an... |
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Summer reading 2008
