PublicAffairs Books: FAITH MISPLACED. Makdisi - University History Department. Professor of HistoryArab-American Educational Foundation Chair of Arab Studies Email: makdisi@rice.edu Phone: x2561 Office: 307 Humanities ON LEAVE 2012-2013 - Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Invited Fellow Education Ph.D., Princeton University, 1997.B.A., Wesleyan University, 1990.
Press - American Orientalism: The United States and the Middle East since 1945, by Douglas Little. Introduction. Copyright (c) 2002 by the University of North Carolina Press.
All rights reserved. On a crisp and cloudless Tuesday morning in September 2001, two Boeing 767 jetliners commandeered by Arab terrorists streaked across the New York skyline and slammed into the World Trade Center. Ninety minutes later the twin glass and steel towers imploded, killing nearly 3,000 office workers, firemen, and passersby and crushing whatever collective illusions of innocence or omnipotence Americans may have had. In ways that few could ever have imagined, Osama bin Laden and his Afghan-based terrorist network al-Qaeda had brought the Middle East to America. Douglas Little. Resurrecting Empire: western footprints and America's perilous path in the ... - Rashid Khalidi. Begun as the United States moved its armed forces into Iraq, Rashid Khalidi's powerful and thoughtful new book examines the record of Western involvement in the region and analyzes the likely outcome of our most recent Middle East incursions.
Drawing on his encyclopedic knowledge of the political and cultural history of the entire region as well as interviews and documents, Khalidi paints a chilling scenario of our present situation and yet offers a tangible alternative that can help us find the path to peace rather than Empire. We all know that those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Rashid Khalidi.