jadis

Some dated and insensitive language in this 1984 potboiler:

I propose to amend it to "dig a hole in the pavement to the strains of a trans" and shall be making a suggestion to that effect in a letter to the publisher.

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"In postwar Europe, on the whole, anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and equally absurd hatreds rooted in ancient religious texts became a disgraced and dead relic buried in the ruins of the Third Reich. But in the postwar Middle East, these notions persisted in elements of radical nationalist and Isl?mist politics."

jadis

The title of this 1998 book has aged incredibly poorly but the analysis of how the conflict with Israel functioned as the organizing principle of intra-Arab politics in the 1950-1970s is very impressive.

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"In postwar Europe, on the whole, anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and equally absurd hatreds rooted in ancient religious texts became a disgraced and dead relic buried in the ruins of the Third Reich. But in the postwar Middle East, these notions persisted in elements of radical nationalist and Isl?mist politics."