Liberated Bride

Yochanan Rivlin, a professor of Near Eastern Studies at Haifa University, is determined to understand two conflicts that have become central to his life: the Algerian civil war of the 1990s, which he feels will help him better understand the Arab mind and, more personally, his son''s divorce. His is a double search for truth, each involving a different bride-Samaher, his newly-wed Arab research as...