© Nate Wright, 2010
7 pages listed under Reviews.
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15 May 2008 |
Review: Jones' and Murphy's "Israel: Challenges to Identity, Democracy and the State"A useful, concise and well-researched book on Israeli society, but it has its flaws. |
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8 May 2008 |
Review: Ramzy Baroud's "The Second Palestinian Intifada"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. |
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10 Jul 2007 |
Review: Graham Fuller's "The Future of Political Islam"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. |
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6 Jul 2007 |
Review: Azadeh Moaveni's "Lipstick Jihad"Azadeh Moaveni's "Lipstick Jihad" is interesting, but it can't stand up to the demands of a memoir. |
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30 Jun 2007 |
Review: Nir Rosen's "In the Belly of the Green Bird: The Triumph of the Martyrs in Iraq"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. |
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12 May 2007 |
Review: "Private" (Film)Easily the best film I have seen on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Private expresses the intense antagonisms of the political conflict through an extremely particular interaction between a Palestinian family and an Israeli military unit. There are few heroes, and their moments of redemption are not grand but small, reluctant, even accidental. |
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1 Aug 2006 |
Review: Tom Segev's "Elvis in Jerusalem: Post-Zionism and the Americanization of Israel""Elvis in Jerusalem" is full of great insight, consistently interesting and perceptive. |
Latest Addition: 3 Jun 2008
Invasion and invisibility: an essay on Eyal Weizman's "Hollow Land"
Latest Addition: 15 May 2008
Review: Jones' and Murphy's "Israel: Challenges to Identity, Democracy and the State"