Toth, an anthropologist who has lived in Egypt and studied Egyptian culture, and is currently an advisor at the new Abu Dhabi campus of New York University, has written a holistic, comprehensive ...

In 1948, Sayyid Qutb went to America, where he stayed for almost two years. It was a formative experience for the devout, uptight, disgust-prone Egyptian, who is regarded as one of the founding ...

I have not read D'Souza's latest, but if reviews are accurate, I am very disappointed in him. Barnett notes that D'Souza discusses Sayyid Qutb and how his disgust with American culture helped lead us ...

Writing in the WaPo, Terrence McCoy discusses how ISIS’s savagery — e.g., the seven year old Australian boy, taken to the jihad by his father, holding up the severed head of a Syrian soldier (click ...

Fans of the Northridge High School Grizzly Bears wrestling team show their spirit. Qutb singled out the town's love of wrestling as evidence of the "brutish" nature of American males. Egyptian writer ...

What They Saw In America: Alexis de Tocqueville, Max Weber, G.K. Chesterton, and Sayyid Qutb, by James L. Nolan, Jr. (Cambridge University Press, 299 pp., $29.95) In Democracy in America, Alexis de ...

LONDON — Four years after President Bush launched a war to oust Osama bin Laden from his hideout in Afghanistan, many are mystified how a polite son of a millionaire construction magnate in Saudi ...