In this Arab time: the pursuit of deliverance

Foreword / John Raisian

In memoriam : our magus / Charles Hill

Introduction : a world foreshadowed

The Arab awakening, 2011 : the year of living dangerously

The honor of Aleppo : a Syrian novel and a Syrian revolution

The sorrows of Egypt

The secular inheritance

The sentry's solitude : Pax Americana in the Arab world

The making of a hijacker : the banal lie and barbarous deeds of a 9/11 terrorist

Writing Iraq

The furrows of Algeria

The traveler's luck : V.S. Naipaul's misunderstanding of Islam

The humanist in the alleys : Naguib Mahfouz, 1911-2006

The making of strangers : Muslims, Jews, and the other 1492.