http://www.notthisway.com/feed/rss.xml RSS feed for notthisway.com en-us http://www.notthisway.com/ http://www.notthisway.com/ntw/the_condoleezza_fan_club Condoleezza Rice’s conception of the "international community" recalls the same sense of rallying the West behind American empire that I get from Huntington's "clash of civilizations": a great divide that casts America as the valiant defender of all we hold dear. http://www.notthisway.com/print.php?id=19 http://www.notthisway.com/ntw/invasion_and_invisibility_an_essay_on_eyal_weizman An extended reflection on the geography of the occupied territories, a sculpted landscape of invasion and invisibility. http://www.notthisway.com/print.php?id=18 http://www.notthisway.com/ntw/putting_annapolis_away Was Bush's recent speech to the Israeli Knesset trying to kill the "peace process"? http://www.notthisway.com/print.php?id=17 http://www.notthisway.com/ntw/review_jones_and_murphys_israel_challenges_to_iden A useful, concise and well-researched book on Israeli society, but it has its flaws. http://www.notthisway.com/print.php?id=16 http://www.notthisway.com/ntw/review_ramzy_barouds_the_second_palestinian_intifa An impassioned argument intended for an audience that will probably never read it. What is covered is only done so superficially. His empirical data is usually only a point of departure from which he can engage in an emotional appeal for the suffering of the Palestinians under occupation. Indeed, this book should be read not as a chronicle, but as a polemic. http://www.notthisway.com/print.php?id=13 http://www.notthisway.com/ntw/assigning_right_and_rights_in_beit_hanoun On the 28th of April, Israel fired missiles at targets in Beit Hanoun. Establishing the truth becomes a battleground over the nature of the conflict and its actors, where the power to assert Right overwhelms the capacity to determine the truth. http://www.notthisway.com/print.php?id=14 http://www.notthisway.com/ntw/assessing_annapolis Following Bush's visit to the region, it would seem an appropriate time to assess the Annapolis conference. What it was, what it wasn't and where we are today. http://www.notthisway.com/print.php?id=3 http://www.notthisway.com/ntw/review_graham_fullers_the_future_of_political_isla In "The Future of Political Islam", Fuller engages two broad questions: what is political Islam and how should it develop in the future? His answer to the first is convincing. His answer to the second stumbles. http://www.notthisway.com/print.php?id=7 http://www.notthisway.com/ntw/review_azadeh_moavenis_lipstick_jihad Azadeh Moaveni's "Lipstick Jihad" is interesting, but it can't stand up to the demands of a memoir. http://www.notthisway.com/print.php?id=8 http://www.notthisway.com/ntw/review_nir_rosens_in_the_belly_of_the_green_bird_t I found the book analytically shallow, skimming the public surface of the society without penetrating into the substance beneath it. He overwhelms the reader with details of his experience in Iraq, but these details are only compensation for his inability to actually explain much about the things he is describing. http://www.notthisway.com/print.php?id=9