Middle East
Stones Into Schools follows the 2006 best-selling book Three Cups of Tea in telling of Mortenson's continuing efforts to build girls' schools in the remotest regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan
Gause sees the three big states of Iran, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia, together with the small states of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates, as forming a distinct system of international relations in which the foreign policy of each country is shaped largely by its relations with the others (plus its relationship with a dominant outside actor).
Framing this prison story is a well-wrought and poignant memoir: Esfandiari tells of her parents, the Iran of her youth, and her journalistic and scholarly career.
Ranging geographically from southern Sudan to Afghanistan, this book covers not just terrorism, wars, and occupations but also sexual mores, architecture, and poetry.
Klausen, a Danish political scientist at Brandeis University, appraises with empathy and irony the characters and issues involved in the 2005 Danish cartoon controversy.
