One of the reviews for The Much Too Promised Land also favorably reviewed Daniel Kurtzer and Scott Lasensky‘s Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace, so I was interested to read this shorter volume by two of the Arab-Israeli experts complimented by Miller. In less than one hundred pages, the authors define lessons learned and opportunities lost, give a […]
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Aaron David Miller’s The Much Too Promised Land was the first book we covered in our new book club at work (looking forward to more discussions on books about Israel and the Middle East with that group). Miller spent decades in the State Department working on the Arab-Israeli peaces process and his book is a […] In January, we were on home leave and I read a lot of books not related to the Middle East, history or diplomacy. Then in late February I returned to work and started my Hebrew language training, and almost all “free” reading came to a screeching halt. Here’s a list in reading order with mini-reviews […] I used to read a lot of Alfred North Whitehead (process philosophy, anyone?), but I’ve never read a lot (any) of Bertrand Russell. Logicomix, by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou was a great introduction to Russell’s significant contributions to logic, mathematics and philosophy. It covers neither his whole life nor all of his writings, […] |
