Typically novelists who decide to write their memoirs don't opt to dictate them. This unusual approach is the one taken by Bahaa Taher with his latest book, titled Biography in Exile. This offering ...

Somewhere along the way, peaceniks like me got the wrong idea about peace. We oversold the pageantry; the iconography is wrong. Doves, olive branches, handshakes, signing ceremonies … It’s a grab bag ...