Book of the week

[Abdu23]

Originally posted by HOUDA-K

Salam Khoya,

At the moment I’m reading,

“Don’t Be Sad” by Shaykh Aaidh Al-Qarni.

It’s a wonderful self ~help book that I got as a present and it’s a great pick me up book, when I’m down and need to put things in my life into perspective.

Wa Salam

Wow, that guy is very good.
Kssos you might be interested, his speach is plain arabic poesie man, you must enjoy his lectures.
you can listen to a lecture about the book Sis.Houda mentioned in here :
http://www.islamway.com/?iw_s=Lesson...esson_id=10825
Give it a try and let me know

[Abdu23]

Originally posted by ssew
i dont read selfhelp books or wha eva
(i'm still to young i geuss)

at the time i'm reading stephen king's
hearts in atlantis and dolores claiborn
at once

first i did not like mr king
but hearts in atlantis i recommend it

when I read stephen, I thought about hawkings
http://www.hawking.org.uk

It's very good that you are reading books at your age

[MrMean_]

This guy Finkelstein is usually very good. He's a Professor at N.Y.U. I had the chance to attend one of his speeches and found him very interesting. I read one of his book "The Holocaust Industry" and he just came out with a new one.
"BEYOND CHUTZPAH : ON THE MISUSE OF ANTI-SEMITISM AND THE ABUSE OF HISTORY"
Hope you get the chance to read it.

In this long-awaited sequel to his international bestseller The Holocaust Industry, Norman G. Finkelstein moves from an iconoclastic interrogation of the new anti-Semitism to a meticulously researched expose of the corruption of scholarship on the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Bringing to bear the latest findings on the conflict and recasting the scholarly debate, Finkelstein points to a consensus among historians and human rights organizations on the factual record. Why, then, does so much controversy swirl around the conflict? Finkelstein's answer, copiously documented, is that apologists for Israel contrive controversy. Whenever Israel comes under international pressure, another media campaign alleging a global outbreak of anti-Semitism is mounted.

Finkelstein also scrutinizes the proliferation of distortion masquerading as history. Recalling Joan Peters' book From Time Immemorial, published to great fanfare in 1984 but subsequently exposed as an academic hoax, he asks deeply troubling questions here about the periodic reappearance of spurious scholarship and the uncritical acclaim it receives. The most recent addition to this mendacious genre, Finkelstein argues, is Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz's bestseller, The Case for Israel.


The core analysis of Beyond Chutzpah sets Dershowitz's assertions on Israel's human rights record against the findings of the mainstream human rights community. Sifting through thousands of pages of reports from organizations such as Amnesty International, B'Tselem, and Human Rights Watch, Finkelstein demonstrates that Dershowitz has systematically misrepresented the facts.

Thoroughly researched and tightly argued, Beyond Chutzpah lifts the veil of contrived controversy shrouding the Israel-Palestine conflict, enabling readers in search of a just and lasting peace to act on the basis of truth.


Praise For The Book

"A very solid, important and highly informative book. Norman Finkelstein provides extensive details and analysis, with considerable historical depth and expert research, of a very wide range of issues concerning Israel, the Palestinians, and the U.S."

-- Noam Chomsky,
Institute Professor, M.I.T.

"The scholarship is simply superb. Finkelstein has clearly done his homework, and consulted and mastered a breathtaking range of material: primary sources and documents, scholarly works, reports old and new, correspondence with relevant individuals, and numerous other sources too. He has left no stone unturned."

-- Mouin Rabbani,
Contributing Editor, Middle East Report

"Accurate, well-written, and devastatingly important."

-- Daniel Boyarin,
Professor of Talmudic Culture, University of California at Berkeley