Lamis Andoni

Veteran analyst Lamis Andoni examines the views of Bernard Lewis, the man who coined the phrase “clash of civilisations” and inspiration for much of the current US administration’s Middle East policy, in this article based on her UC Berkeley course, “The War on Terrorism: The US, Islam and the Arab World”.

Held up to the light, the X ray of Fouad Mahed’s right femur resembles a piece of the sky on a clear desert night: countless specks of white scattered against an ink-black backdrop. But this milky way is actually hundreds of fragments of lead and bone, the result of a bullet from an Israeli rifle that shattered Mahed’s leg. The image itself is of something that no longer exists. After massive blood loss, doctors were forced to amputate the limb two weeks after the shooting.

The Washington Quarterly, Volume 25, No. 2, Spring 2002 [PDF Format].