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The Middle East Without Tears

Daniel Pipes

Between Memory and Desire: The Middle East in a Troubled Age.By R. Stephen Humphreys.University of California Press. 297 pp. $29.95. Any book on the Middle East that refers in...

The Western Mind of Radical Islam

Daniel Pipes

Fat’hi ash-Shiqaqi, a well-educated young Palestinian living in Damascus, recently boasted of his familiarity with European literature. He told an interviewer how he had read and enjoyed Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky,...