John M. Barry ´s list of works in worldcat.org shows that he is able to make a popular, general audience book about topics that academic h...

And how nobly it raises our conceit of the mighty, misty monster, to behold him solemnly sailing through a calm tropical sea; his vast, mil...

O God! by Mehdi Alavi I reviewed this one in 2001. I've started to add my reviews to Amazon.com, and then I discovered a review I wrote ...

Dr. Ayman Fanous attended University of Virginia with me in the early 1990s. In addition to being a genuine human being, a gad'a, an i...

Free the P is a compilation of hip hop and spoken word performances to renew the spirit of resistance and self-evaluation for all activist...

Dissonance and Harmony: Arabic Music Goes West was broadcast on Georgia Public Television November 2. Catch it on your local station. It is...

From the Princeton full-text version of Moby Dick by Herman Melville . But, perhaps, to be true philosophers, we mortals should not be co...

A Season in Mecca: Narrative of a Pilgrimage . Abdellah Hammoudi . Translated from the French by Pascale Ghazaleh. New York: Hill and Wang; ...

Amnesty International has released a report entitled " Egypt: Women Targeted by Association ." A local Amnesty International memb...

The Boston Globe's The Big Picture by Alan Taylor has a 35-photo collection of Ramadan observance around the world.

Film: War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death , produced by The Media Education Foundation and narrated by Se...

No End in Sight: Iraq's Descent into Chaos, the Inside Story from the Ultimate Insiders is a 102-minute documentary detailing the error...

The Fog of War , by Errol Morris , is a series of interviews and commentary with Robert S. McNamara . Slate.com published a review which be...

Haleem & Kaleem's Eid Gifts (ISBN 978-983-065-253-5) by Fawzia Gilani and illustrated by Muslimah Williams. Published by A.S. Noor...

Ismat's Eid (ISBN 978-81-8146-405-7) by Fawzia Gilani-Williams and illustrated by Proiti Roy. It is published by Tulika Publishers, Ch...

The United States public TV show e 2 opened its third season with an excellent episode entitled " A Garden in Cairo " about the A...

Rumi Returning is a wonderful documentary about Mawlana Jalal al-Din al-Rumi's life, focusing on the historical events and places which...

David L. Brown produced and directed the film " Seniors for Peace: A Portrait of Extraordinary Senior Peace Activists ." This fil...

Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Infidel. Free Press: New York; 2007. ISBN:0-7432-8968-4 I read this book at the request of a friend. I honestly had a lo...

Foundations of the Deen: Islam, Iman, & Ihsan by Zaid Shakir and Abdullah Ali . This is a 5-CD set from the Zaytuna Institute which c...