Unlike Madonna, the Middle East Isn’t A “Material Girl”
In my article, “How to Understand Islamism: Read What Its Leaders Actually Say,” I wrote about how Sunni Islamist leader Yusuf al-Qaradawi: “Does not talk about the need for urbanization, the equality...
View ArticleNazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
During the 1930s and 1940s, a unique and lasting political alliance was forged among Third Reich leaders, Arab nationalists, and Muslim religious authorities. From this relationship sprang a series of...
View ArticleComing Soon: Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
"This book is a model of original research and the ultimate scholarly study of German Arab and German Muslim cooperation during the first half of the twentieth century, covering both World Wars. It is...
View ArticleVoices on Nazis, Islamists and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Here’s a roundup of four pieces which have appeared in the the media recently about the book Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East (click for full preview), by Barry Rubin and...
View ArticleInterview with Wolfgang G. Schwanitz, re Nazis, Islamists and the Making of...
Writer and historian Marshall Poe recently featured Wolfgang G. Schwanitz, co-author, with the late Prof. Barry Rubin, of the book Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, on his...
View ArticleBook Review: Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Excerpt of Review“The enemy of your enemy is your friend,” wrote the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, al-Hajj Amin al-Husaini, about his reverence for Nazi Germany that had fought his enemies, the (British)...
View ArticleIslamism in Syria
Islamism has featured prominently in the politics and policies of modern Syria on a number of different levels. Like other majority Sunni Muslim Arab countries governed by secular autocrats, Syria has...
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