LeVine presents a groundbreaking exploration of the roots of the current conflict between the United States and the Muslim world.
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Dec 15, 2011
Demi
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Levine exhibits all the predilections of an irrevocable sophist. Stylistically slovenly, the prose is turgid,replete with inane allegories, which leads one to ponder whether this entire text is that of a very effective satirist or simply one of a deranged exercise in fatuity.
On the seminal question, 'Why they hate/don't hate us', Levine writes with tenuous clarity, 1 - there is really no homogeneous abstract of 'us' or 'them', 2 - 'they' are not really that different from us, 3 - the c More...
On the seminal question, 'Why they hate/don't hate us', Levine writes with tenuous clarity, 1 - there is really no homogeneous abstract of 'us' or 'them', 2 - 'they' are not really that different from us, 3 - the c More...
Jun 27, 2008
Huyen
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scholarly, insightful, thought-provoking, strongly opinionated, inspiring and idealistic.
the title is quite misleading (maybe chosen for the sake of fashion) and indeed much narrower than what the author intends to address. Mark LeVine, as an activist, politics/religion scholar, artist who has traveled widely across the ME, analyzes the marginalization of the Middle East/North Africa region in the process of globalization led by the Neo-cons and Axis of Arrogance (Huntington, Fukuyama, Fr More...
the title is quite misleading (maybe chosen for the sake of fashion) and indeed much narrower than what the author intends to address. Mark LeVine, as an activist, politics/religion scholar, artist who has traveled widely across the ME, analyzes the marginalization of the Middle East/North Africa region in the process of globalization led by the Neo-cons and Axis of Arrogance (Huntington, Fukuyama, Fr More...
May 01, 2007
Noah
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Levine, who is a history professor at the University of California at Irvine, offers an academically rigorous history of the Middle East and North Africa, drawn from detailed reading of economic data as well as rich personal experience in the area. Perhaps the scene that will stick with me the longest is Levine's account of the Sadr City sheikh, who, in describing his daily work to remove unexploded munitions from the neighborhood in which he lives, said simply, "This is Islam."
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