“Thou hast been weighed in the balance and found wanting.” That is the judgment of scholar J.B. Kelly on the rise of revolutionary Arab nationalism and the long Western retreat from responsibility in the Middle East since the 1950s. But what has been found wanting–the failed revolutionary regimes or a West surfing home on the wave of the future? Or both about equally? With a matchless dry wit Kelly describes in this collection the long tragi-comedy of how ruthless socialist tyrants and deluded Western diplomats between them kept the Arab world in a state of progressive backwardness and eventually midwifed Islamist terrorism. If we had listened then, we might not have to laugh through gritted teeth now.
— John O’Sullivan

The Way to the Heavenly Home

Abram Teichrib’s story of his mother’s “memories of the establishment of the Orenburg colony, the early years of the colony’s growth, the revolution, the years of her family’s travail under the Soviet government, the Second World War, her experiences during the trek to Poland in 1943/44, and subsequent return to a Siberian labour camp in 1945, and eventually, her return to the former Orenburg colony in 1947.”

The Literary Culture of France: Studies in the Essential Character and Permanent Values of French Literature from the Earliest Times to the Present, by J.E.G. Dixon.

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