Samih Al-Qasim, Adinis, Mahmud Darwish Since pre-Islamic days, poetry has been the mass art form of the Arabic language. In modern times poets in the region have had a greater...

Anton La Guardia The struggles of the Israelis and Palestinians - with their terrible histories of disaster and redemption - command the obsessive attention of the world. Statesmen tinker with...

Bernard Lewis January 1, 2003 by Phoenix Books

Bernard Lewis For many centuries, Islam was the world's greatest, most open, most enlightened, most creative, most powerful civilisation. And then everything changed, as the previously despised West won victory...