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GORDON PARSONS recommends an entertaining account of the years between Germany’s defeat in WWI and Hitler’s seizure of power
Fundamental questions on Islamism
A book on the West’s response to the rise of a global Muslim identity poses a challenge to aggressive secularism on the left, says ANDREW MURRAY
MIGUEL YOSHIDA explains the evolution and influence of the Cuban Casa De Las Americas in joining culture to the revolutionary struggle
ANDY HEDGECOCK is charmed by a skilful adaptation of Tove Jansson’s lyrical portrait of three generations of a family, overcoming grief
ALEX HALL treads warily through a messy, dialectical struggle fought in the mundane machinery of driving licences, criminal law, and birth registries
MICHAL BONCZA, FIONA O’CONNOR, JAMES WALSH and ANGUS REID review Atlas of Disappearance, Love Me Tender, Bouchra, and This Tempting Madness
Flitting between myth and the modern world, Medusa is determined to steer clear of human affairs. When her resolve crumbles, the result is petrifying in every sense
A Fundamental Fear: Eurocentrism and the Emergence of Islamism
by S Sayid
(Zed Books, £12.99)
THE RISE of Islamism as a major political force in the Middle East and to some extent elsewhere has been one of the most important political developments of the last 40 years.
It is also one that has rendered much of the secular left bewildered and incoherent.
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