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The Industrialization of Misinformation: Musk, Grok, and the New Frontier of Narrative Control

In a recent development reported by Sarah Ellison and Amy Gardner in The Washington Post, secretaries of state from five U.S. states are urging Elon Musk to correct false information

Israel-Palestine Population By the Numbers

The relative size of the population of Arabs and Jews in Israel Palestine– as well as the raw numbers of people involved– tends to surprise many people in the West.

George Prochnik’s Stranger in a Strange Land

In my review for the LA Review of Books, I delve into George Prochnik’s intriguing and beautiful book, Stranger in a Strange Land. This work masterfully intertwines Prochnik’s memoir with

The Field of Blood by Nicholas Morton

Nicholas Morton’s new book on the formative years of the Crusader states is a delight on multiple levels. The Field of Blood: The Battle for Aleppo and the Remaking of

The Last Palestinian: The Rise and Reign of Mahmoud Abbas

The publisher of The Last Palestinian touts it as the first book in English to profile Mahmoud Abbas, the man who succeeded Yasser Arafat as leader of the Palestine Liberation

A Tale of Two Jerusalem Days

A couple of years ago I found myself changing my flight to Jerusalem to include a side-trip to Jordan, so that I could meet a friend-of-a-cousin-of-a-friend who had offered to

Making Moderate Islam by Rosemary R. Corbett

Nobody seemed to care that an upscale Islamic community center was being proposed for lower Manhattan until 2010 when Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post christened it “The Ground Zero Mosque”.

The Story of Reason in Islam by Sari Nusseibeh

As a Westerner for whom the intellectual history of Islam is something of a mystery, reading Sari Nusseibeh’s timely and sweeping new book was like swimming on the surface of

George Boole, the Holy Trinity, and the Birth of the Computer

Since it first emerged in the early days of Christianity, the concept of the Holy Trinity— Father, Son and Holy Spirit as three components of a single God-head— has been

Donald Trump, Theologian

Recently, James Carroll wrote a sensitive piece in the New Yorker (“The Radical Meaning of Pope Francis’s Visit to Juarez”) about the testy exchange between Pope Francis and Donald Trump

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emekshaveh Emek Shaveh @emekshaveh ·
14 Aug

12/ to the Israeli government's relentless attack on a natural and cultural landscape that belongs not only to the Palestinians, but to humanity as a whole. For more information see our joint report with @peacenowisrael, and @cfpeace

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28 Aug

Communities bridging Jewish-Palestinian divides face immense challenges, especially post-Gaza. Emek Shaveh, since 2009, exemplifies the hard work for justice, advocating fair, balanced treatment of Israel-Palestine’s rich archaeological heritage. #SocialJustice #Archaeology

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