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September 9, 2008

Banned! The UAE Bans Dubai: The Vulnerability of Success

In what might be a first for us, one of the books we publish has been banned for sale in the United Arab Emirates. Late last week the Times Higher Education Supplement ran an article about the banning of Christopher...

July 31, 2008

Jewish Property Claims Against Arab Countries: Michael Fischbach on the History News Network

In a recent post on the History News Network, Michael Fischbach, author of the forthcoming book, Jewish Property Claims Against Arab Countries, discusses the recent U.S. House of Representatives Resolution 185, which asks the United States government whenever mention is...

July 16, 2008

The Los Angeles Times reviews Dubai: The Vulnerability of Success

The Los Angeles Times just ran a very favorable review of Christopher Davidson’s Dubai: The Vulnerability of Success. As the review points out, Dubai’s wealth and booming economy does not come from oil but from trade, luxury tourism, high technology,...

June 24, 2008

Michael Fischbach Speaks at the UN on Palestinian Refugees

On Friday, June 20th, Michael Fischbach spoke at a special meeting at the United Nations to mark 60 years of dispossession of Palestine Refugees. As several speakers noted the question of Palestinian refugees is the longest standing crisis on the...

June 20, 2008

Sue OPEC: An Op-Ed from Thomas W. Evans

In an opinion piece in yesterday’s New York Times, Thomas W. Evans, a former adviser to presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush and the author of The Education of Ronald Reagan: The General Electric Years and the Untold...

June 11, 2008

A Review of Olivier Roy’s The Politics of Chaos in the Middle East from "A Fistful of Euros"

We had meant to post something about this sooner but earlier this month A Fistful of Euros (AFOE) reviewed Olivier Roy’s The Politics of Chaos in the Middle East. (Read a pdf of the Roy’s introduction here.) AFOE is an...

May 21, 2008

Lt. General Ricardo Sanchez and his role in the Administration of Torture

In his review of Lt. General Ricardo Sanchez’s new book Wiser in Battle: A Soldier’s Story, Scott McLemee of Bloomberg.com notes that the former head of coalition forces in Iraq offers a similar message found in other books about how...

May 19, 2008

The Nakba: An Interview with Lila Abu-Lughod

Der Spiegel recently interviewed Lila Abu-Lughod, coeditor of Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory about the 60th anniversary of the the expulsion of Palestinians from their homes in 1948. Here is an excerpt from the interview: Lila Abu-Lughod:...

May 8, 2008

The Sixtieth Anniversary of the Nakba: A Posting by Ahmad H. Sa’di and Lila Abu-Lughod

Ahmad H. Sa’di and Lila Abu-Lughod are the editors of Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory. Across the world, people are marking the sixtieth anniversary of the Palestinian’s “nakba” (catastrophe). The Palestine/ Israel conflict has occupied center stage...

May 6, 2008

A Possible Peace between Israel and Palestine: A Posting from Menachem Klein

Menachem Klein is a senior lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, and was a team member of the Geneva Initiative negotiations of 2003. He has advised both the Israeli government and the Israeli delegation for...

May 2, 2008

The Politics of Chaos in the Middle East

Last Sunday, the New York Times Book Review weighed in on the new Olivier Roy book, The Politics of Chaos in the Middle East. Reviewed alongside Noah Feldman’s new book, the Times declares, “At only 167 pages, Roy’s book provides...

March 21, 2008

Blogging Columbia University Press Authors

While we hope you stay and read the posts on this blog, we also want to let you know about some other Columbia-related blogs: Noelle McAfee, visiting professor of philosophy at George Mason University and author of the just published...

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