Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam
Since it was “discovered” by the West some twenty years ago, Islamic fundamentalism — now more commonly and accurately termed extremist or militant Islam — has been the focus of a myriad of books, articles, lectures and documentaries. Still it remains a…
The People of Nowhere
Danny Rubinstein’s recently-published The People of Nowhere will be a valuable source of information and analysis on a contentious subject. Books on the Middle East tend to have strong emotional content reflecting their authors’ political convictions. It is refreshing that Rubinstein has…
The Domestic Battleground: Canada and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
In The Domestic Battleground, David Taras and David Goldberg set out to awaken “the reader to the high stakes that Canadians have in the Middle East conflict and to the importance of the domestic battleground in influencing the policies Canada will pursue”.…
A History of Islamic Societies
I met Professor Lapidus on only one occasion, in 1969 when he attended a conference held in honour of the 1000th anniversary of the founding of Cairo. For a young graduate student, this was an opportunity to see and meet the illuminati…
The Vatican, Islam, and the Middle East
Critique de Léopold Battel
Letters // Correspondance
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Ethnics and Foreign Policy
Canadians, who often boast that they comprise a cultural mosaic, can hardly complain when their ethnic diversity is reflected in their nation’s foreign policy. Indeed it is entirely appropriate that our minorities should lobby for their preferred policies and be accorded a…
Elizabeth Pauline MacCallum
by Anne Trowell Hillmen
