Murtaza Hussain Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Murtaza Hussain

Reading Shaul Magid’s new biography of Meir Kahane. On Kahane’s Revisionist Zionist understanding of Arab nationalism: https://t.co/O4sypk636k

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Technically, this is a book about how the memory of the Ottoman Empire shapes the politics of modern Turkey. More interesting, however, is the great example of utilitarian historiography that it provides us to analyze.

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“A Harvard Law graduate, he has also released a memoir, “Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy,” about 45 days that changed his life around the time of the Capitol siege and the death of his son.” https://t.co/QIOLUOHwrD

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Zeihan has an impressive breadth of knowledge and has written a fascinating book ... about how the modern world was constructed ... including about the mechanics of supply chains, agriculture, and energy – as well as how it all might plausibly unravel.

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"Ferencz wrote the foreword to a 2009 book titled 'George W. Bush, War Criminal?: The Bush Administration’s Liability for 269 War Crimes.' He also wrote the foreword for another book, 'Blood on Our Hands: The American Invasion and Destruction of Iraq.'” https://t.co/ZNtM0im9B3

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Finished reading ALPHA by @David_Philipps about the Eddie Gallagher saga and the Navy SEALs who tried to stop him and was blown away by both the reporting and storytelling. Genuine page-turner that deserves to be made into a movie about moral heroism.

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A science fiction story set in a future when humanity has expanded across the galaxy into a universal spacefaring empire. Although the setting is [one] that implies soaring human achievement, it’s actually a story about civilizational decline and how to survive it.

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"A 24-year-old international student has been arrested and charged after a professor and two students were stabbed during a gender studies lecture at the University of Waterloo, west of Toronto." https://t.co/9FFeNKDmcw

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... it was refreshing to read a novel about Afghanistan, written by an Afghan, that makes Afghans the center of the story. It may be cliche to say, but when people have some say in how they are depicted you get to see bit more clearly the simple things that we all share.

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The person most singly responsible for contemporary knowledge of Mansur Al-Hallaj was a French Orientalist named Louis Massignon who made it his life work to popularize him. The experience contributed to his own return to Catholicism and favorable mention of Islam in Vatican II: https://t.co/v0uLLVsZZP

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