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We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir

by Raja Shehadeh

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Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam M. Grant

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Who you are should be a question of what you value, not what you believe.

Fear: The must-read gripping new book about New Zealand's hostile underworld of extremists

by Byron Clark

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“In her words, ‘preconceived images of oppressed Muslim women end up shaping policies that harm our communities’.”
― Hussein Kesvani, Follow Me, Akhi: The Online World of British Muslims

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“The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.’ —Voltaire”
― Ed Coper, Facts and Other Lies: Welcome to the Disinformation Age

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“all we had been doing was merely replacing one superstitious dogma for another: every ‘truth’ was merely a product of the historical, cultural and social lens we view and tell them through.”
― Ed Coper, Facts and Other Lies: Welcome to the Disinformation Age

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“For more than twenty years, ever since those jetliners flew into the glass and steel of the World Trade Center, I have been preoccupied with the ways that large-scale shocks scramble our collective synapses, lead to mass regression, and make humans easy prey for demagogues.”
― Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World

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“In 1957, historian Norman Cohn had tracked these outbreaks of apocalyptic thinking to periods of significant social, technological and economic change, when wealth inequality becomes highly visible.1 Arguably, with the tumultuous changes brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, we’re living through one of those periods now.”
― Byron Clark, Fear: The must-read gripping new book about New Zealand's hostile underworld of extremists

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