Tamim Ansary

Straddling a Fault Line Between Islam and the West

Date of Review: 
04/26/2002
Reviewer: 
Richard Eder
Source: 
The New York Times

Review Excerpt:

In the weeks after Sept. 11, when the television screens were filled with the certainties and chiseled uncertainties of the talking heads — invariably in upper case — a round-featured and bespectacled head would occasionally pop up. It did not so much talk as question and remember: in lower case. For