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Volume 50

January–March 2009

Number 3

Besieged in Britain VICTORIA BRITTAIN

A syllabus of errors: Pope Benedict XVI on Islam at Regensburg RALPH M. COURY

Zionism and Oriental Jews: a dialectic of exploitation and co-optation EHUD EIN-GIL and MOSHÉ MACHOVER

Jacks and diamonds – some aspects of race on the London Victorian stage HAZEL WATERS

Commentary

Catching history on the wing: a conference report INSTITUTE OF RACE RELATIONS 90 Catching history on the wing: conference speech A. SIVANANDAN 94 Reviews

The Umma and the Dawla: the nation state and the Arab Middle East by Tamim Al-Barghouti (Elaine C. Hagopian) 99 Poems from Guantánamo: the detainees speak edited by Marc Falkoff and The Guantánamo Files: the stories of the 774 detainees in America’s illegal prison by Andy Worthington (Victoria Brittain) 104 Framing Geelani, Hanging Afzal: patriotism in the time of terror by Nandita Haksar (Arun Kundnani) 106

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