Volume 55, Number 17 · November 6, 2008
The Middle East: What to Do?
By Brian Urquhart
A Path Out of the Desert: A Grand Strategy for America in the Middle East
by Kenneth M. Pollack
Random House, 539 pp., $30.00
Sari Nusseibeh is a Palestinian philosopher and currently president of Al-Quds University in Jerusalem. His ancestors accompanied the soldier and second caliph ('successor to the prophet') Omar when he captured Jerusalem in AD 638. From that time to the present the Nusseibehs have been an institution in the Holy City. In his haunting memoir, Once Upon a Country, Nusseibeh writes of the British rulers of Palestine following World War I: 'They also did something that would be repeated innumerable times in the future: they sent in clueless 'experts' to find a solution.'[1]
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