Books for Troubled Times in the Middle East Destination: Iran Book: Saved by Beauty: Adventures of an American Romantic in Iran (NEW May 2011) by Roger Housden Roger Housden‘s Saved by Beauty combines an enticing travel guidebook with a philosophical memoir as he travels in Iran, seeking the beautiful culture he first fell in love [...]
Let’s play word association. What do you think of when you hear “Memorial Day”? Okay, hands up, who said “Sale?” Those of you whose hands are not up—you’re showing your age. In the small town in Ohio where I grew up, the cemetery was up on the hill behind the Church of Christ. It [...]
Books for the Arab World in Troubled Times Destination: Middle East Book: Dining with Al Qaeda (2010)by Hugh Pope Every Monday for a while now, I’ve been writing about books that might shed some light on the current internal struggles of countries in the Middle East (as well as Iraq and Afghanistan as the center [...]
QUESTIONS I would really appreciate your answers to a few questions, to help me plan for the next few months. Where should we go? I have gone through spells of concentrating for a week on one country. Did it with Greece. Did it with Italy. I did a series of France on Friday, and that [...]
Destination: Nigeria Book: Things Fall Apart (1959) by Chinua Achebe You won’t learn here about today’s Africa, racked by wars in some parts and thriving on tourism in others. This is the Africa of the Africans, when outsiders were just beginning to encroach. Missionaries showed up (a white man–not an albino, someone says–riding an iron [...]
Books for Troubled Times in the Arab World Destination: Iran (Persia, 12th Century) Book: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, translated by Edward Fitzgerald (1917) The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam*, a rather slim book with its ivory slip cover and front embossed with green, red and gold twining roses held an honored position in my parent’s living [...]
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Destination: England Movie: Jane Eyre (2011) This movie came and went in the blink of an eye, and it did not even get to Tucson until a month after it had opened in more significant cities. If you missed it, I certainly hope that you will have the opportunity to see this latest Jane Eyre [...]
