This book should carry a label on its jacket: Warning! Belief in Saudi-backed pseudo-science is dangerous to America's health.
Tag: John Esposito
Esposito’s predictions, right and wrong
At Middle East Strategy at Harvard (MESH), John L. Esposito has revisited a prediction he made over five years ago, in the lead-up to the Iraq war. "Five years after a U.S. war with Iraq," he wrote in November 2002, "it is likely that the Arab world will be less democratic than more and that …
Georgetown Yankees in Prince Alwaleed’s court
From the archive (2006): How Prince Alwaleed bought a piece of Georgetown U.
Jihad is Over! (If Noah Feldman Wants It.)
The newest face thrust upon us by America's insatiable appetite for novelty belongs to one Noah Feldman. He's a 32-year-old assistant professor of law at New York University and author of a new book (his first) entitled After Jihad: America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy. He's also been anointed chief U.S. adviser to Iraq …
Professorial Pundits Place Iraq Bets
The war is underway, and most of the rationales for and against it are based on predictions. No one reasonably expects professors of Middle Eastern studies to predict military outcomes. But political outcomes, especially in the long term, are supposed to be their forte. And so here, for the record, are the predictions of four …
Ask Professor Esposito
The fame of Professor John Esposito, director of Georgetown University's Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, rests upon his purported ability to sort Islamist extremists from Islamist moderates. Too often, he warns us, we wind up throwing all of the Islamists into one box. That's a mistake, and to avoid it, we need none other than Professor …
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