Israel Didn’t Lose by Removing Metal Detectors at the Temple Mount
Stopping the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement should be the real goal.
August 30, 2017
Lessons from a Critic of Jihadist Poetry
Poems take up nearly one fifth of many al-Qaeda magazines.
After dedicating two decades to studying avant-garde Egyptian poetry, Elisabeth Kendall yearned to apply her skills to something more relevant. She focused her attention on jihadist poetry—a robust and ever-growing genre on which she is now the leading Western expert. Both Osama bin Laden and his successor Ayman al-Zawahiri wrote their share of poems; while Islamic State’s Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi does not, he did devote his doctoral dissertation to the subject. Alex Marshall writes:
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How the Second Lebanon War Set the Stage for the War in Syria and the Rise of Iran
The sixth Arab-Israeli war, or the first Iran-Israel war?
For Germany’s Foreign Minister, Defaming Israel Takes Priority over Diplomacy
Another German who can’t forgive the Jews for the Holocaust.
Lessons from a Critic of Jihadist Poetry
Poems take up nearly one fifth of many al-Qaeda magazines.
Ancient Israelites Could Carve in Ivory, Too
Not just Phoenicians.