by Amir Taheri | Apr 30, 2012 | Book Reviews, Interviews
Have you heard of Fritdtjof Nansen? Well, what about Miread Corrigan or Carlos Lamas? No surprise if you haven’t heard of any of them, although they are all winners of the “most famous and most controversial prize in the world.” Jay Nordlinger’s book on the Nobel...
by Amir Taheri | Mar 4, 2012 | Book Reviews, Interviews
Ask any reporter worth his salt where he would wish to be these days and you are likely to hear: Syria. Journalists know that they have to deal with two kinds of happenings: events and undercurrents. Events are things that happen in a moment, as it were, within a...
by Amir Taheri | Jan 29, 2012 | Book Reviews, Interviews
The future of blasphemy Speaking of the Sacred In An Age of Human Rights By: Austin Dacey 208 pages, $15 Published by: Continuum, 2012 After decades of being regarded an obscure, if not discarded, concept, blasphemy has made a spectacular comeback as a hot issue with...
by Amir Taheri | Nov 7, 2011 | Book Reviews, Interviews
The downfall of several Arab despots, starting with Saddam Hussein in Iraq, has fomented a new fear: seizure of power by Islamists determined to deny Arabs a taste of freedom. To allay that fear, leaders of Islamist parties in Tunisia, Libya, Egypt and Syria, where...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Oct 24, 2011 | Book Reviews
“Steve Jobs” (Simon & Schuster), by Walter Isaacson: “Steve Jobs” takes off the rose-colored glasses that often follow an icon’s untimely death and instead offers something far more valuable: The chronicle of a complex, brash genius...
by Mahmud El Shafey | Sep 13, 2011 | Book Reviews, Interviews
It is ten years since the fateful 9/11 attacks, a day that for many serves as a dissecting line in history between “before” and “after”, between a world before that tragic attack which claimed the lives of almost 3,000 people, and after its even more tragic...
