Making the Arab World: Nasser, Qutb, and the Clash That Shaped the Middle EastIn Making the Arab World, Fawaz Gerges, one of the worlds leading authorities on the Middle East, describes how the clash between pan Arab nationalism and pan Islamism has shaped the history of the region from the 1920s to the present. He tells this story through an unprecedented dual biography of Egyptian president and Arab nationalist leader Gamal Abdel Nasser (19181970) and another of the twentieth century Arab worlds most influential figuresSayyid

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Israeli soldiers capture and rape a young Palestinian woman

from Dostoyevsky and Henry James to Marcel Proust

Buber—one of the greatest Jewish minds of the 20th century—lays out a view of the world in which human beings can enter into relationships that enhance their mutual existential dignity (I–Thou relations)

which are as full of individual character as they are of visionary wisdom

Arguing that it is high time for men to be as involved in gender justice as women

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Italy’s master storyteller weaves tales in which cherished deceptions and illusions of love — including self-love — are swept away in magical instants of recognition

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