Israeli Democracy Rests in the Democratic Spirit of Its People
Why the international obsession with the country’s judicial reforms?
February 27, 2023
The Story of a Beloved Work of Arab Literature, and Its Enemies
Naguib Mahfouz and the anti-Semites.
Like the great novels of 19th-century Europe, Children of the Alley, by the Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz, was published serially in a major newspaper and weaves a multigeneration tale of a single family. The controversies surrounding the book, which appeared in 1959 and was first published as a stand-alone work in 1967, are the subject of Mohamed Shoair’s recent The Story of a Banned Book. Peter Theroux, who translated Children of the Alley into English, writes in his review:
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Why the West Bank Is in Chaos
Neither an endless cycle of violence nor a sudden eruption.
In Analyzing the Decline of Religion, Expect the Unexpected
Making sense of the Asbury awakening.
The Story of a Beloved Work of Arab Literature, and Its Enemies
Naguib Mahfouz and the anti-Semites.
The Tabernacle Is an Expression of the Biblical Commitment to Human Freedom
Reading Exodus as a tale of two ancient Near Eastern construction projects.