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Eric Alterman
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Eric Alterman is a professor of English and journalism at Brooklyn College and a professor of journalism at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. He is the author, most recently, of Why We're Liberals: A Handbook for Restoring America's Important Ideals. Journalist, author, and professor at Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate School of Journalism |
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I'd like to recommend The Saint and The Sultan, by Paul Moses, just published by Doubleday. Paul is a hard-driving journalist, rather than a scholar of religion, which for my purposes, is a good thing, because he jumps into the story of St. Francis of Assisi and the 13th-century Islamic leader Sultan Malik al-Kami with a doggedness, and a storyteller's ability that makes the whole thing jump in way I would not have imagined possible when it comes to a period like this one. What's more, he does not shy away from drawing analogies to our own issues with Islam, and lessons that might be drawn from the example of St. Francis. I learned something and enjoyed myself immensely in the process and I'm betting you will, too. |
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