Review:The book was terrific. Why did they send me two copies. They only charged me for one. I will give my extra copy to a Jewish person who does not belive the Palestenians are mistreated. I dare you to read this book without sheddng a tear. I have been to Israel 4 times. Israel will always be in my heart and soul, but when I think they are Wrong I will let them know--My beloved Israel. YOU are WRONG, and being stubborn like the Taurus your zodiac sign you were born under. This situation is not m... Read more

Review:The numerous, excellent reviews perhaps make another unnecessary. But a few words of further encouragement to prospective readers can't be out of order in this case. When author Colm Toibin remarks that a book is "likely to become a classic," it is worth paying attention. That is no fluff. This is a brilliant integration of poignant, reflective memoir and hard-nosed history written with the tension of a fine novel. It would be difficult not to be moved by the story of Hisham Matar's struggle... Read more

Review:Fasten your seatbelt because once you start reading Dave Eggers’ book titled, The Monk of Mokha, you will not want to stop. Eggers introduces us to Mokhtar Alkhanshali, a young Yemeni American whose journey through life changes dramatically after he finds passion about coffee from Yemen. Mokhtar knew nothing about coffee from Yemen when he drifted into this passion, and once he learned all he could, he hustled and bargained and found every way possible to bring the fine coffee from Yemen to the ... Read more

Review:A great book which has not fared well. As Eichmann Before Jerusalem shows, Arendt was a little naive in her interpretation of Eichmann, although the banality of the man and the Germans involved in the Holocaust does not mitigate the enormity of their crime. Read more

Review:A biography of this boys immense determination to survive and succeed against all the odds. Starving cold he continues his schooling even walking hours there and back. Hats off to you Arion. Respect!!!!! Each page riveting!! Read more

Review:This is a clear, lucid explanation of the history of the Muslim world and the current cross currents that help to make that world a place of danger and conflict. These currents include doctrinal schism, ethnic and tribal rivalry, national identities (and the lack thereof), personal rivalries, the conflict between modernist and fundamental conservative outlooks, economic power and numerous other factors. The author does a wonderful job of showing how the world and its history looks quite differen... Read more

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Review:I think it is a great book and quite informative. However Lesley Hazleton has only used sources from a particular school of thought and never bothered to check up on the others. For example Imam Hassan and his father, Imam Ali, were portrayed as having views that conflicted with each other basically. In reality these 2 men were some of the greatest men to have walked the earth. There's a reason they are considered as Imams and part of the 12 descendant Imams after the prophet. I won't go into de... Read more

Review:"The rain begins with a single drop."

When Manal al-Sharif got behind the wheel of the car she'd spent years making payments on and rode onto the city streets of Saudi Arabia, she was sure she had the law behind her. After all, a woman driving a car is not illegal so much as it is against tradition. Manal quickly learned how very little the legality of it all mattered to the Saudi secret police. She was arrested and thrown into a women's prison with appalling conditions. Like many of her ... Read more

Review:Seven Pillars of Wisdom is fascinating from cover to cover. The book is on some levels Lawrence's study of himself as much as a history of the battles in which he was involved. He writes, "Any protestation of the truth from me was called modesty, self-depreciation. It always irritated me, this silly confusion of shyness, which was conduct, with modesty, which was a point of view... I was not modest, but ashamed of my awkwardness, of my physical envelope, of my solitary unlikeness which made me n... Read more