The Book of Saladin is the fictional memoir of Saladin, the Kurdish liberator of Jerusalem, as dictated to a Jewish scribe, Ibn Yakub. Saladin grants Ibn Yakub permission to talk to his wife and retainers so that he might present a full portrait in the Sultan's memoirs. A series of interconnect..
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occupation of Afghanistan is over, and a balance sheet can be drawn.
These essays on war and peace in the region reveal Tariq Ali at his
sharpest and most prescient.Rarely has there been
such an enthusiastic display of international unity as that which
greeted the invasion of Afghanist..