G. Willow Wilson is a boundary and border crosser of the rarest variety–a sophisticated political thinker who is also a cracking storyteller. In Alif the Unseen, she gives us a novel whose thriller elements are in perfect equipoise with a […]
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Niranjana Iyer
Stealing Nasreen by Farzana Doctor, Inanna Publications and Education Inc., May 2009, 230 pgs. Every immigrant to the western world knows, or knows of, a cabdriver who was a brain surgeon or fiscal economist in his homeland. The narrative […]
Of particular topical interest is Sen's deconstruction of the idea that a clash between the "Islamic civilization" and "western civilization" is inevitable.
Sen begins by unraveling the notion that tolerance, scientific thinking and democracy are uniquely Western ideas that Islam intrinsically opposes.
