Revelations of Netanyahu: Personalities in “Bibi: My Story”
In his extensive autobiography Bibi: My Story, Benjamin Netanyahu does not merely recount his life; he constructs an expansive narrative of global power in which he is both the architect and the central figure. To understand his portrayals of world leaders is to decode the operating logic of what he terms the ‘Iron Wall’ philosophy […]
Satan Bibi: The Memoir that sanctifies ethnic cleansing
Benjamin Netanyahu’s autobiography, Bibi: My Story, is not merely a memoir of political survival; it is a monumental testament to the victory of the particular over the universal in the 21st century CE. It serves as the definitive textual rebuttal to the ethical lineage of Hannah Arendt, Albert Einstein, Isaac Deutscher, and Edward Said. Where […]
Malcolm X: Between Blackness and Islam (Part Two)
The second conversion of Malcolm is visibly centered on his split from the Nation. Malcolm was in fact ousted from the movement. Some would try to understand this process as the second and last conversion in his life; a process that begins with his separation from the Nation and the embracing of Sunni Islam. A good part of scholarly attention on Malcolm portrays this as a sudden, dramatic and heroic one
