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Archives: Books
![Mosul Youth rescue Books and Music in wake of ISIL Defeat](http://web.archive.org./web/20170921194025im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/08/mosul-youth-rescue-books-and-mus-187x137.jpg)
![A Turkish Woman in the Oedipus Complex: Orhan Pamuk’s “The Red-Haired Woman”](http://web.archive.org./web/20170921194025im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/08/a-turkish-woman-in-the-oedipus-c-187x137.jpg)
A Turkish Woman in the Oedipus Complex: Orhan Pamuk’s “The Red-Haired Woman”
By Erdağ Göknar | (Los Angeles Review of Books) | - - COULD A CONTEMPORARY STORY of love and vengeance set in Turkey have its roots in ancient myths of patricide and…![Novelist Arundhati Roy and her mission to inspire in the ‘Ministry of Utmost Happiness’](http://web.archive.org./web/20170921194025im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/07/novelist-arundhati-roy-and-her-m-187x137.jpg)
Novelist Arundhati Roy and her mission to inspire in the ‘Ministry of Utmost Happiness’
By Ali Kazimi | (The Conversation) | - - Anjula Gogia, the activist bookseller from Another Story Bookshop in Toronto, had patiently nudged me over a few weeks to introduce and host…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170921194025im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/12/debating-1-187x137.png)
6 Reasons Feminist Carrie Fisher Was Ahead of Her Time
TeleSur | - - While all Star Wars (male) fans only remember Carrie Fisher in her sex-slave golden bikini, the late actress had a feminist conception of her role way ahead of…![‘Post-Truth’ or ‘Xenophobia’ or . . . What word sums up Horrible 2016?](http://web.archive.org./web/20170921194025im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/12/post-truth-or-xenophobia-or-what-187x137.jpg)
‘Post-Truth’ or ‘Xenophobia’ or . . . What word sums up Horrible 2016?
By Philip Seargeant | (The Conversation) | - - Every December, lexicographers around the world choose their “words of the year”, and this year, perhaps more than ever, the stories these tell…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170921194025im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/09/41oOmnrITsL._SX310_BO1204203200_-1-187x137.jpg)
A Nomad Between Worlds: Badawi
By Erdağ Göknar | (Los Angeles Review of Books) | - - MOHED ALTRAD’S DEBUT NOVEL Badawi begins in the Cold War–era Middle East, where the Bedouin tradition of a nomadic life…![Trump too Horrifying for Stephen King](http://web.archive.org./web/20170921194025im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/05/trump-too-horrifying-for-stephen-187x137.jpg)
Trump too Horrifying for Stephen King
TeleSur | - - The writers condemn Trump's appeals to the most violent elements of society, while encouraging aggression, intimidating his opponents and promoting racism. Stephen King, the master of horror, is…![Pulitzer Prize-Winner Michael Chabon Slams Israeli Occupation of Palestinians](http://web.archive.org./web/20170921194025im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/05/pulitzer-prize-winner-michael-ch-187x137.jpg)
Pulitzer Prize-Winner Michael Chabon Slams Israeli Occupation of Palestinians
By Joe Dyke | ( Your Middle East | - - American author Michael Chabon's Jewish identity has long been central to his work. From 2001's Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Amazing Adventures of…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170921194025im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/04/wineislamnow-1-187x137.jpg)
Love and Wine (Poem of the Day: Abu Nuwas of Baghdad)
Abū Nuwas al-Hasan ibn Hanī al-Hakamī (756–814) | Love and Wine | - - Ho! a cup, and fill it up, and tell me it is wine, For never will I drink…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170921194025im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/04/440px-Sadi_in_a_Rose_garden-378x230-1-187x137.jpg)
Saadi on Impatient Love (Poem of the Day)
By Muslih al-Din "Saadi" Mushrif ibn Abdullah Shirazi | Trans. Reynold A. Nicholson | - - The heart that loves with patience — a stone 'tis, not a heart; Nay, love and…How a Medieval Muslim thinker invented Sociology
Stephen Dale/ Joseph Preville/ Julie Harbin | (ISLAMICommentary) | - - Column » ‘By the Book’ with Joseph Preville by JOSEPH RICHARD PREVILLE and JULIE POUCHER HARBIN for ISLAMiCommentary on JANUARY 7,…![Big Win For Fair Use In Google Books Lawsuit](http://web.archive.org./web/20170921194025im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2015/10/big-win-for-fair-use-in-google-b-187x137.jpg)
Big Win For Fair Use In Google Books Lawsuit
By Corynne McSherry | (Electronic Freedom Foundation) | - - In a long-anticipated ruling, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals handed Google a clear victory today, soundly rejecting the Authors Guild’s claim…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170921194025im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/04/Sunil_Sharma_Book_-187x137.jpg)
How Persian Literature shaped the culture of Iran and India
Sunil Sharma interviewed by Maryam Kamali | ( Iranian Medieval History) Sunil Sharma is the Associate Professor of Persianate and Comparative Literature at Boston University’s Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature…A Journalist Journeys to the Heart of the Quran (Muslim Scripture)
By JOSEPH RICHARD PREVILLE and JULIE POUCHER HARBIN for ISLAMiCommentary : Carla Power Great journalists invite us to be companions with them on their journeys to extraordinary places. Carla Power offers such…![Fearing NSA, Writers in USA and Worldwide Avoiding controversy, keyword Searches](http://web.archive.org./web/20170921194025im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2015/01/fearing-nsa-writers-in-usa-and-w-187x137.jpg)
Fearing NSA, Writers in USA and Worldwide Avoiding controversy, keyword Searches
PEN America | "Global Chilling" PEN America writes: "Global Chilling: The Impact of Mass Surveillance on International Writers is a new report demonstrating the damaging impact of surveillance by the United States…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170921194025im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/04/colecolbert10-187x137.jpg)
Blogging Colbert (In honor of the Finale of the Colbert Report)
Reprint: So I was on the Colbert Report, hosted by Stephen Colbert at Comedy Central, on Wednesday night, to promote my new book, Engaging the Muslim World.The clip is up at the…![Where Books Are Banned, The Internet Can Be a Lifesaver](http://web.archive.org./web/20170921194025im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2014/09/where-books-are-banned-the-inter-187x137.jpg)
Where Books Are Banned, The Internet Can Be a Lifesaver
By Jillian York via EFF The censorship or banning of books is a phenomenon that occurs in countries around the world. Books that are considered “scandalous” or inciteful in some way are…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170921194025im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/04/new_arabs-6-180x137.jpg)
The Arab Political Crisis: It isn’t a Matter of Civilization and it isn’t Unique
By Juan Cole Hisham Melhem has a piece on what he calls the collapse of Arab civilization. The piece is riddled with contradictions and fuzzy thinking and with all due respect to…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170921194025im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/04/awg-cover-250-187x137.jpg)
Arabs without God
By Brian Whitaker, author of Arabs without God In the midst of sectarian turmoil in the Middle East, one section of Arab society rarely gets much attention: those who reject religion entirely.…![Cole’s “The New Arabs” at Firedoglake Book Salon](http://web.archive.org./web/20170921194025im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2014/09/coles-the-new-arabs-at-firedogla-187x137.jpg)