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klein: cats running with the pack
Like a cat running after any mouse that happens to stray within view. That first reflex, the first nature in the human being, is unavoidable and inalterable. It can be mastered, it can be conquered, but it remains. But mind … Continue reading
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Tagged Alain Delon, David Landau, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Franz Kafka, Joseph Losey, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maimonides guide for the perplexed, Maimonides in Egypt, Maurice Sendak, Max Uhlfelder, Michael Siegel, Sultan Saladin Egypt, Theodor Geisel, Theodor Seuss Geisel, theodore geisel
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at the speed of a mouse: ease of epiphany
Battle of the prophets? Back a thousand years ago, the Jewish sage Maimonides had no illusions about an Islamic Golden Age. For a Jew it was a precarious existence and he thought and witnessed the particular animus of Muslim culture … Continue reading
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ever since Abraham gave Ishmael the boot
There has been a couple of articles over the past several months in Haaretz, the Israeli secular left wing daily that try to confront the issue of co-existence with the Palestinians and of course the larger Islamic world from the … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Bostom, benjamin disraeli, Benny Morris Historian, Benzion Netanyahu, Cairo Geniza, doug saunders globe and mail, Fouad Ajami, Golden Age of Muslim Spain, Heinrich Graetz, Jane Gerber, Maimonides, Maimonides in Egypt, Marcel Duchamp, Martin Buber, meron benvenisti, Montesquieu, Moritz Steinschneider, Nicky Larkin director, Pierre Bayle, Piet Mondrian, Robert Wistrich, Shlomo Dov Goiten, Voltaire
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repertory: islamophobia rewind
She makes a good point here, namely, stop bitching about the vulgarity of American culture vis a vis Islam and Arabs and make your own art or cultural product. Fight bad product with better, fight prejudice and lies with truth … Continue reading
the big kahuna
In fact, for Maimonides living under Islamic rule was like Orthodox jews trying to practice their religion in communist Russia; nyet time and prison. What goes around usually comes around, the bend or over the top of a hill and … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Adolph A. Weinman, Adolph Weinman sculpture, Amartya Sen, Andrew Bostom, CAIR protest of Supreme Court, Daniel Pipes, Georges Vajda, Hammurabi Law Code, John Marshall, Justinian Roman emperor, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maimonides in Egypt, Omar Bakri Mohammed, U.S. Supreme Court Sculptures of Lawgivers, Walter Benjamin
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a river of time
Ancient Egyptians rejoiced in the thought that their country was without history. Their view of the world was static: the best life was one in which everything was always the same. The Nile rose, flooded and receded; the sun crossed … Continue reading
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Tagged Arab conquest of Egypt Saladin, Crusades in Egypt, Francis of Assisi in Egypt, Giotto di Bordone, Giotto Frescoes, Gustave Dore, ibn-Khaldun medieval Arab scholar, Louis IX in Egypt, Louis King of France in Egypt, Maimonides guide for the perplexed, Maimonides in Egypt, Napoleon in Egypt, sultan al-Kamil Egypt, The Arab Spring, Turan-Shah killed in Egpt
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