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Jon Calame's Top Book Recommendations

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Jerusalem is more than a holy city built of stone. Domain of Muslims, Jews, and Christians, Jerusalem is a perpetual contest, and its shrines, housing projects, and bulldozers compete in a scramble for possession. Now one of Jerusalem's most respected authorities presents a history of the city that does not fall prey to any one version of its past.

Meron Benvenisti begins with a reflection on the 1996 celebration of Jerusalem's 3000-year anniversary as the capital of the Kingdom of Israel. He then juxtaposes eras, dynasties, and rulers in ways that provide grand comparative...
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Jon CalameHere’s a group of very dedicated professionals who made it their business not simply to lament the ethnic partitions, but decided to walk through every metric they could think of. (Source)

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Northern Ireland's Troubles

The Human Costs

An up-to-date analysis of the problems faced by Iran's Kurdish population less
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Jon CalameThey’re practitioners, actually social workers, who spend their whole lives in Northern Ireland watching the city suffer from its partitions … dividing Protestant and Catholic working class neighbourhoods in Belfast. (Source)

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Survival In Beirut

A Diary Of Civil War

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Jon CalameIn the divided city you always have a line or lines and somebody drew those too. (Source)

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What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many studies have been written on nationalist political movements, the sense of nationality--the personal and cultural feeling of belonging to a nation--has not received proportionate attention. In this widely acclaimed work, Benedict Anderson examines the creation and global spread of the 'imagined communities' of nationality.

Anderson explores the processes that created these communities: the territorialization of religious faiths, the decline of antique kingship, the interaction between...
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Jon CalameWe looked into divided cities not because we had a morbid fascination with these traumatised cities, but because they seemed to be a keyhole through which you could glimpse this larger phenomenon relatively clearly. (Source)

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