Within the Arab community, there were more settled and prosperous tribes, reaching out into the more intractable desert, marginal desert dwell- ers—forerunners of the...
North and east of Palestine the businessman-traveler came to Edessa, a very old city (thought by Muslims to be the birthplace of Abraham) refounded...
Small wonder that they understood their world so poorly. Small wonder as well that even when we know better in principle and when we...
I have meditated and written this book in some unusual places, on travels to every continent save one, in the intermissions of my unscholarly...
An American soldier posted in Anbar province during the twilight war over the remains of Saddam’s Mesopotamian kingdom might have been surprised to learn...
