Issue 68
November 2001
Contents
Islam and the west
20th November 2001 — Issue 68
Is the failure of Islamic states the fault of Islam?
Minoru Yamasaki
20th November 2001 — Issue 68
He was condemned in the 1970s for ruining Manhattan's skyline. Now, destruction of his towers has ruined it again
Iranian girls
20th November 2001 — Issue 68
I wondered whether she had been smiling behind her black veil when we said goodbye
Universal nation
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Americans are genuinely shocked by the idea that they are an imperial power
The Essex clearances
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The real Essex man is misunderstood. He was once a pioneer, the government bulldozed his dreams
The Saudi enigma
20th November 2001 — Issue 68
Saudi oil drives globalisation, Saudi money drives part of the Islamic revolt against it. Have the princes lost control of the religious fervour which underpins their rule and become a liability for the west?
Which civilisation?
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The idea of a liberal "west," standing out against fundamentalism, is a fallacy.
Millennial market
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It's not terrorists that have threatened the economy so much as the failings in the financial system
The front line
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It takes a fine line between alarmism and complacency to judge Pakistani border tensions
The lofty left
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Many on the British left have failed to understand how the US is behaving in this war
Jewish imagination
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Now is the time to stand against all religious fundamentalism
City of terror
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When Tony Blair announces a war against terrorism he does so from the centre of a city that has long been a haven for terrorists
Arabian sensuality
20th November 2001 — Issue 68
Islamic fundamentalists have forgotten their own heritage of women writers and extraordinary Arab myth
Disenchantment of desire
20th November 2001 — Issue 68
She writes perfectly pitched short stories about intimacy and sex. But Alice Munro's stories are more than a match for most novels
Last stop, Europe
20th November 2001 — Issue 68
Labour's strategy for getting Britain into the euro is still too passive and economistic. Ministers should read this book, says former Robin Cook adviser
Brussels diary
20th November 2001 — Issue 68
Come a global crisis and Brussels becomes endearingly irrelevant. And the "rapid reaction force" looks further away than ever