CONTENTS

Foreword by John Raisian

In Memoriam: Our Magus by Charles Hill

Acknowledgments

Introduction: A World Foreshadowed

Part I

  1 The Arab Awakening, 2011: The Year of Living Dangerously

  2 The Honor of Aleppo: A Syrian Novel and a Syrian Revolution

Part II

  3 The Sorrows of Egypt

  4 The Secular Inheritance

  5 The Sentry’s Solitude: Pax Americana in the Arab World

  6 The Making of a Hijacker: The Banal Lie and Barbarous Deeds of a 9/11 Terrorist

  7 Writing Iraq

Part III

  8 The Furrows of Algeria

  9 The Traveler’s Luck: V. S. Naipaul’s Misunderstanding of Islam

10 The Humanist in the Alleys: Naguib Mahfouz, 1911–2006

Part IV

11 The Making of Strangers: Muslims, Jews, and the Other 1492

About the Author

About the Hoover Institution’s Working Group on Islamism and the International Order

Index