Peter Partner’s books include Arab Voices and The Pope’s Men: The Papal Service in the Renaissance. His new book, God of Battles: Holy Wars of Christianity and Islam, has been published in the United Kingdom. (February 1998)
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The Dangers of Divinity
February 5, 1998
The Shape of the Holy: Early Islamic Jerusalem
by Oleg Grabar
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The Rebirth of Beirut
June 22, 1995
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In Saddam’s Arms
April 25, 1991
The Monument: Art, Vulgarity and Responsibility in Iraq by Samir al-Khalil
Culture, History and Ideology in the Formation of Ba’thist Iraq, 196889 by Amatzia Baram
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In a Fratricidal Country
July 19, 1990
Tribes with Flags: A Dangerous Passage Through the Chaos of the Middle East by Charles Glass
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Lost Worlds
December 8, 1988
Placeways: A Theory of the Human Environment by Eugene Victor Walter
The Architecture of Exile by Stanley Tigerman
The Idea of a Town: The Anthropology of Urban Form in Rome, Italy and the Ancient World
by Joseph Rykwert
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Marianne into Battle
April 10, 1986
Monuments and Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form
by Marina Warner
Image as Insight: Visual Understanding in Western Christianity and Secular Culture by Margaret R. Miles
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On the Town
December 5, 1985
Cities and People: A Social and Architectural History by Mark Girouard
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Translation
June 2, 1983
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The Roman Spring of Clement VII
March 31, 1983
The Sack of Rome, 1527
by André Chastel, translated by Beth Archer
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Death of Venice
May 27, 1982
A History of Venice by John Julius Norwich
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Born Again?
May 14, 1981
Rome: Profile of a City, 312-1308 by Richard Krautheimer