Mercedes Sosa and Chava Alberstein

Mercedes Sosa and Chava Alberstein perform in Israel.

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World Books Review: A Chic “Celestina”

Written in the fifteenth century, “Celestina” remains a classic work of Spanish literature that, in a lively new English version by the acclaimed translator Margaret Sayers Peden, proffers all the sex, drama, and violence necessary for an HBO mini-series.

World Books Review: Chased out of Paradise

Paula Jacques’s “Light of My Eye” is a heart-wrenching novel about the dissolution of Egyptian Jewish life, the tale of a people displaced ten years after World War II.

Afghanistan – mission impossible?

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As President Obama debates whether to send even more troops to the country, and the British death toll there rises, former The World host Eddie Mair chairs a debate at Chatham House in London about how close the west is to achieving its ambitions in Afghanistan.