Idle No More

It would be no surprise to say that 500-year-old campaigns go through periods of lull.   For the Irish, it took 500 years for the British to conquer them, and another 500 to kick them out.  Undoubtedly that campaign had its own share of ebb and flow.  But on a patchy blue Saturday afternoon with the … Continue reading →

Tunnel Vision: Our Attention to the Pump

I’ve started Alia Malek’s book, A Country Called Amreeka: U.S. History Retold Through Arab-American Lives. It’s marvelous really. Malek tells the history of Arabs in America by selecting monumental events and narrating those events through the eyes of a character, or a handful of characters, who lived through those formative moments. For instance, Malek follows … Continue reading →

Tunnel Vision: Our Attention to the Pump

I’ve started Alia Malek’s book, A Country Called Amreeka: U.S. History Retold Through Arab-American Lives.  It’s marvelous really.  Malek tells the history of Arabs in America by selecting monumental events and narrating those events through the eyes of a character, or a handful of characters, who lived through those formative moments. For instance, Malek follows an America … Continue reading →