WALL STREET JOURNAL
Agents of Their Own Destiny
by Neil Rogachevsky
September 24, 2015

Today, the ills of the Middle East are often blamed on colonialism, imperialism or ‘Satans’ great or small. Nonsense, argues the author….Mr. Karsh’s account deserves credit for granting Middle Easterners their own agency. At a time when the ills of the Middle East are so often blamed on colonialism, imperialism or “Satans” great or small, the author’s perspective is refreshing. (And in academic departments of Middle Eastern Studies, which remain in thrall of Edward Said’s theory of Orientalism, it can be close to heresy.) READ MORE