Fertile Crescent Books & Reviews

Revivalism, Shi‘a Style

John O. Voll | Jan 03, 2007

Energized Shi‘a represent a powerful challenge to Sunni extremism and jihadism.

Building on Sand?

Amatzia Baram | Sep 01, 2003

Books on "the new Iraq " are already flying off the printer, but are they any good?

Wasserstein's Jerusalem

Yossi Klein Halevi | Jun 01, 2002

Discounting the Jewish claim to Jerusalem in the name of evenhandedness is no way to achieve a just settlement.

The Road to Damascus . . .

Fouad Ajami | Mar 01, 1999

Itamar Rabinovich's The Brink of Peace is a masterly chronicle of the Syrian-Israeli peace negotiations of 1993-96, in which Israel and Syria--and America--once staked so much hope.

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