Gaza in Crisis is Noam Chomsky’s clear-sighted analysis of an area in desperate impasse on April 10, 2021From the targeting of schools and hospitals, to the indiscriminate use of white phosphorus, Israel’s conduct in ‘Operation Cast Lead’ has rattled even some of its most strident supporters. In Gaza in Crisis, Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé survey the fallout from that devastation, and place the massacre in Gaza in the context of Israel’s […]
A victorious king vs his empire on March 24, 2021The 78th death anniversary of Pir Sabghatullah Shah Rashdi known as Soreh Badshah was observed across the country by Pakistan Muslim League-Functional representatives and his followers. Everyone paid tribute to Soreh Badshah, who was hung to death on March 20, 1943, over a military court verdict under the colonial rule. They said neither lucrative offers […]
A Thousand Splendid Suns — a splendid read! on July 18, 2020Khaled Hosseini, Afghan-American author follows his debut with fine risk-taking novel about two victimised but courageous Afghan women. He followed up his bestselling with another searing epic of Afghanistan in turmoil. The story covers three decades of anti-Soviet jihad, civil war and Taliban. The author writes a clear, vigorous prose. Characters grow and plots develop […]
Argument is political, economic institutions are fundamental causes of income inequality on July 14, 2020Acemoglu and Robinson’s main argument is that political and economic institutions are the fundamental cause of income inequality in today’s world. Douglass North contributed significantly to the area of institutional analysis of society and the role of institutions for long-term development. Acemoglu and Robinson elaborated North’s analysis by making a distinction between inclusive and extractive […]
Against Our Better Judgement — Weir keeps her book focused on the early history of Israel on May 8, 2020Alison Weir’s relatively short book covers the history of Zionism in the United States from the last decades of the 19th century until the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. (She is working on a second volume that will carry this history to the present.) Its brevity does not mean, however, that it […]