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Updated April 23, 2002
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Books HomepageBeyond the Storm : A Gulf Crisis Reader - by Phyllis Bennis (Editor), Michel Moushabeck (Editor), Edward W. Said
Hardcover (March 1998)Calling the Shots : How Washington Dominates Today's UN - by Phyllis Bennis, Erskine Childers
PaperbackJewish Portraits, Indian Frames: Women's Narratives from a Diaspora of Hope (Brandeis Series on Jewish Women)
by Jael M. Silliman
Hardcover - 224 pages December 2001
University Press of New England; ISBN: 1584651695
Discussed on Beyond the Pale 12/30/01On Being a Muslim - by Farid Esack (11/ 25/01 on Democracy NOW! in Exile)
Qur'an Liberation and Pluralism - by Farid Esack
PaperbackTaliban - by Ahmed Rashid
Hardcover - March 2000
Reaping the Whirlwind : The Taliban Movement in Afghanistan - by Michael Griffin
Hardcover - 272 pages (May 1, 2001)
Jihad Vs. McWorld : How Globalism and Tribalism Are Reshaping the World - by Benjamin R. Barber, Andrea Schulz (Editor)
Paperback Reprint edition (August 1996)
From Booklist - Barber, director of Rutgers' Walt Whitman Center for the Culture and Politics of Democracy and author of Strong Democracy (1984), An Aristocracy of Everyone (1992), and several other books, expands on an Atlantic article in this devastating study of the threat to democracy and the nation-state implicit in the conflicting, paradoxically interdependent demands of provincialism and global consumerism. Together, proactive "McWorld" and reactive "Jihad" create "a world in which our only choices are the secular universalism of the cosmopolitan market and the everyday particularism of the fractious tribe," a world with no concern for equality or justice and no mechanism to produce public goods, a world in which the individual may be blood brother or blood enemy, will certainly be a consumer, but can hope to be a citizen only to the extent that new, countervailing forms of civil society develop at the local, national, and international levels. Barber's analysis of "McWorld" (particularly the "videology" imposed by its "infotainment telesector") and of "Jihad" opposition to modernity in nation-states around the world dramatizes the challenges facing those who hope to preserve citizenship and democratic institutions and use them to restrain the destructive anarchy that "Jihad" and "McWorld" share. Mary Carroll
Blowback : The Costs and Consequences of American Empire - by Chalmers Johnson
Hardcover - 268 pages (March 2000)
Islam : A Short History (Modern Library Chronicles) - by Karen Armstrong
Hardcover - 222 pages Modern lib edition (August 22, 2000)
Silent No More : Confronting America's False Images of Islam - by Paul Findley
Paperback - July 2001
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