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January 28, 2019

Using Literature to Explore Other Perspectives

In a January 28 Faith and Culture conversation with Berkley Center Senior Fellow Paul Elie, Israeli author David Grossman discussed the joys and complexities of writing, how to portray conflict in novels, and the role his Jewish identity plays in his work.

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January 12, 2019

How Saudi Arabia and Iran Use Islam in Foreign Policy

In a Brookings Institution podcast, Berkley Center Senior Research Fellow Peter Mandaville and Shadi Hamid discuss their new paper, which focuses largely on how both Saudi Arabia and Iran employ Islam as a soft power tool in the conduct of their foreign policy, and also touches on case studies including Morocco, Jordan, Turkey, and Indonesia.

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January 2, 2019

We Still Live within the Mediated, Alienated World of “The Moviegoer”

In this review for the New Yorker, Berkley Center Senior Fellow Paul Elie takes a look at Walker Percy's The Moviegoer, describing it as "the first work of what we call contemporary American fiction, the earliest novel to render a set of circumstances and an outlook that still feel recognizably ours."

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