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NONFICTION: Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey, V.S. Naipaul ∙ The Confidence Man in American Literature, Gary Lindberg ∙ The Graves of Academe, Richard Mitchell ∙ The Language of Clothes, Alison Lurie ∙ Lectures on Russian Literature, Vladimir Nabokov ∙ Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor, Diana...
The year's attacks on world leaders came with almost seasonal regularity: before time had diminished the shock of one shooting, another occurred. First, on a mild spring afternoon in Washington, John Hinckley fired his pipsqueak's .22 at Ronald Reagan for reasons meaningful only to himself; then...
It is difficult for Westerners to grasp the extent to which Gaddafi is the sole spirit and voice of a revolution that in twelve years has transformed this North African desert wasteland. In 1969, armed with Islamic zeal and a near fanatical belief that he was the heir to Egyptian...
Still, Gaddafi has failed to realize his real ambitions. He believes that he is Nasser's true heir in the Middle East and nurtures a dream of establishing an Islamic sub-Saharan republic stretching from Senegal to the Sudan. "My problem is I have no country to lead, though I...
In 1979, the Aga Khan gave $11.5 million to Harvard and MIT to establish a joint program for the study and preservation of Islamic architecture.