William Eichler is an editorial assistant and freelance journalist who lives and works in the UK. He has an MA in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Nottingham, and reviews academic books on the Middle East for the LSE Review of Books. You can follow him on Twitter: @EichlerEssays.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaAs Afrin burns, where is the left?Kurds, it seems, have the misfortune of being victims of a “non-western” power and so their suffering barely...
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Published in: HomeThe making of a demagogue: how Erdoğan became Turkey's strongmanEce Temelkuran’s Turkey: the Insane and the Melancholy (2016) chronicles Erdoğan's paranoid style of politics and...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaTheodor Herzl and the trajectory of ZionismAn interview with Professor Derek Penslar, former professor of Israel Studies at Oxford University, offers one...
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Published in: HomeBarbarians at the gateActivist and filmmaker Chloe Ruthven’s The Occupiers stitches together a compelling insider’s account of the 136-day...
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Published in: TransformationIslam and the future of toleranceA new book by best-selling atheist Sam Harris and Islamist-turned-reformist Maajid Nawaz fails to convince.
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Published in: TransformationBanning boycotts: is history repeating itself?The UK government's recent attempts to legislate against Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions are reminiscent of...