How the Myth of the Israel-Palestinian Conflict’s Supreme Importance Distorted 70 Years of American Middle East Policy
What if there is no solution?
October 3, 2019
The Arab World Can’t Blame All of Its Problems on the West
Edward Said and honor killings.
For the past several weeks, the death of Israa Ghrayeb, a twenty-one-year-old Palestinian woman, has garnered much attention on Arabic-language social media and also in the Arab press. Ghrayeb was apparently beaten to death by family members for appearing in public—at a café—with her fiancé. To Hussain Abdul-Hussain, her death is a stark reminder of the ways in which Arab intellectuals have used the ideas of the Egyptian-American literature professor Edward Said, along with the those of the many postcolonial theorists who followed in his footsteps, to avoid critical examination of honor killings and other social ills:
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If Jews Don’t Speak Up for Themselves, No One Will Speak Up for Them
A Rosh Hashanah sermon on anti-Semitism.
How Secret Hebrew Lessons Turned a Soviet Jew into a Leader of the Refusenik Movement
With the help of an “Esperanto” club.
The Arab World Can’t Blame All of Its Problems on the West
Edward Said and honor killings.
A Stolen Synagogue Seat and the Fate of a Russian-Jewish Family
A memoirist sheds light on the shtetl’s social conflicts.