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		Da übertreibt sie, finden Ian Buruma und Timothy Garton Ash, und erklären sie zur "Fundamentalistin der Aufklärung".
		Februar: Ian Buruma und Timothy Garton Ash erinnern an die wohlmeinenden Intellektuellen der westlichen Welt, die einst den Stalinismus, aber nicht den Kommunismus kritisieren wollten.
		Auf der einen Seite Ian Buruma und Timothy Garton Ash, Kritiker der Islamkritiker, denen sie Fundamentalismus der Aufklärung vorwerfen.
	www.perlentaucher.de /artikel/3642.html (1772 words)

	Murder in Amsterdam - Ian Buruma - Penguin Group (USA)
		Shortly thereafter, Ian Buruma returned to his native country to try to make sense of it all and to see what larger meaning should and shouldn't be drawn from this story.
		The result is Buruma's masterpiece: a book with the intimacy and narrative control of a true-crime page-turner and the intellectual resonance we've come to expect from one of the most well-regarded journalists and thinkers of our time.
		Ian Buruma's entire life has led him to this narrative: In his hands, it is the exemplary tale of our age, the story of what happens when political Islam collides with the secular West and tolerance finds its limits.
	us.penguingroup.com /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9781594201080,00.html (305 words)

	Ian Buruma - AOL Books
		When Buruma (Bad Elements) returned to his homeland in an effort to make sense of the brutal murder, he quickly realized there was more to the story than a terrorist lashing out against Western culture.
		Buruma refuses to blame the victim, though, giving equal weight to critics who insist Islam must adapt to European culture rather than the other way around, like Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Dutch politician who scripted van Gogh's final film, an avant-garde indictment of the religion's treatment of women.
		There is a strong sense of journalistic immediacy to Buruma's cultural inquiry, and if the result is a slim volume, that's because his dense, thoughtful prose doesn't waste a single word.
	books.aol.com /booklists/product/ian-buruma (253 words)

	Truth Swings By The Neck
		Buruma’s portrayal of dissidents in Chinese societies is incisive, ironic and often deflating.
		Buruma writes, for example, that Teo Soh Lung and Patrick Seong are “victims of a different kind of fear — the fear that stops people from hiring them as lawyers, the fear of their contagion as former dissidents”, the fear that caused Teo to refuse to represent Jeyaretnam.
		Buruma writes movingly about the personal sacrifices made by the dissidents from all countries, but only in Singapore is there the overwhelming sense of “futility, of fighting a losing battle” in the struggle to be recognised as valid alternatives to central control.
	tengqianxi.diaryland.com /buruma.html (932 words)

	Lettre Ulysses Award \| Ian Buruma
		Ian Buruma was born in 1951 in The Hague, Netherlands, to a Dutch father and an English mother.
		Ian Buruma spent six years living in Tokyo, first as a film student at Nihon University College of Arts, then as a photographer, actor, dancer, translator, film reviewer and journalist.
		Ian Buruma has been a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Institute for the Humanities in Washington, D.C. and at St. Anthony’s College in Oxford.
	www.lettre-ulysses-award.org /authors03/buruma.html (371 words)

	Murder In Amsterdam by Ian Buruma: Reviews
		Ian Buruma addresses questions of political philosophy, moral accountability and mass psychology in the most rigorous possible way: journalistically.
		Buruma's personal account of his homeland under siege powerfully conveys the looming challenge of integration facing the Netherlands, and Western Europe in general.
		There is a strong sense of journalistic immediacy to Buruma's cultural inquiry, and if the result is a slim volume, that's because his dense, thoughtful prose doesn't waste a single word.
	www.metacritic.com /books/authors/burumaian/murderinamsterdam?part=rss (580 words)

	JOLLY DAYS: Ian Buruma
		Buruma says that the Bush administration is arguing that we are in Iraq to help establish, or “impose”, as Buruma would have it, “universal values”.
		Buruma feels the false picture of the west in the Arab world is also a source of the problem.
		Buruma calls this Arab stereotyping of the west Occidentalism — he associates this mindset with what one would find in mid century Germany — where the enemy of western civilization was seen as mechanistic and soulless, lacking the intuitive roots of blood and soil.
	www.paintedmatter.com /blog/archives/000238.html (537 words)

	Amazon.fr : The Missionary and the Libertine: Livres en anglais: Ian Buruma (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Amazon.fr : The Missionary and the Libertine: Livres en anglais: Ian Buruma
		Buruma (Anglomania) first became fascinated with the East in 1971 during a Japanese theater show in Amsterdam, and he has maintained this interest ever since.
		Buruma deftly picks apart the common Western paranoid view of the Japanese and compares it to the parallel fear of Americans (and Jews) depicted in a contemporary Japanese book.
	www.amazon.fr /Missionary-Libertine-Ian-Buruma/dp/057117938X (784 words)

	Powell's Books - Modern Library Chronicles #11: Inventing Japan: 1853-1964 by Ian Buruma
		In a single short book as elegant as it is wise, Ian Buruma makes sense of the most fateful span of Japan’s history, the period that saw as dramatic a transformation as any country has ever known.
		In part, Ian Buruma argues, the story is one of a newly united nation that felt it must play catch-up to the established Western powers, just as Germany and Italy did, a process that involved, in addition to outward colonial expansion, internal cultural consolidation and the manufacturing of a shared heritage.
		Buruma's early chapters are especially good, written with characteristic equanimity and clarity....But, again, it is the reverberations with contemporary Japan that give the book particular interest....What emerges from the book is a picture of a country that has not come to terms with the momentous events of its recent past.
	powells.com /biblio?isbn=0679640851 (648 words)

	Amazon.ca: Murder In Amsterdam: Books: Ian Buruma (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Buruma refuses to blame the victim, though, giving equal weight to critics who insist Islam must adapt to European culture rather than the other way around, like Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Dutch politician who scripted van Gogh's final film, an avant-garde indictment of the religion's treatment of women.
		Buruma returned to his homeland after Van Gogh's murder to gain understanding from figures in Dutch and Dutch Muslim politics and society who might provide it, including the Somali-born politician who wrote Van Gogh's fatal film, a Muslim prison chaplain, a teacher, a historian, and another Dutch Muslim politician.
		Buruma sees the problem as primarily denying second-generation Muslims a home in the country in which they were born.
	www.amazon.ca /Murder-Amsterdam-Ian-Buruma/dp/1594201080 (602 words)

	Ian Buruma — Infoplease.com
		With an English mother, Dutch father, and Japanese wife, Buruma considers himself an ideal observer of cultural and ethnic identity in conflict with modern technology.
		Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance by Ian Buruma
		False witness: The Irving-Lipstadt trial and the New Yorker.(analysis of article by Ian Buruma on lawsuit brought by David Irving......
	www.infoplease.com /ipea/A0763054.html (314 words)

	Nomadics: Vargas Llosa on Ian Buruma on Ayaan Hirsi Ali on... (Site not responding. Last check: )
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		He implicitly addresses the polemic of British historian Timothy Garton Ash, who made fun of him last week in the Guardian and referred to the position that even Holocaust denial must be allowed, in the name of freedom of opinion and freedom of scientific research.
	pjoris.blogspot.com /2006/11/vargas-llosa-on-ian-buruma-on-ayaan.html (727 words)

	Ian Buruma, books on Ian Buruma
		Ian Buruma returns to his native land to explore the great dilemma of our time through the story of the brutal murder of controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh at the hands of an Islamic extremist.
		A revelatory look at what happens when political Islam collides with the secular West Ian Buruma 's Murder in Amsterdam is a masterpiece of investigative journalism, a book with the intimacy and narrative control of a crime novel and the analytical brilliance for which Buruma is renowned.
		Ian Buruma rumou então ao país que se orgu...
	www.campusi.com /author_Ian_Buruma.htm (572 words)

	Amazon.ca: Occidentalism: Books: Ian Buruma (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Buruma and Margalit argue that the first two of those conceptions, typical of secular Occidentalism, are themselves Western, products of European romanticism that early-twentieth-century Japan and Germany exploited to their own ruin.
		Buruma and Margalit conclude that these ideas' lives are "a tale of cross-contamination" that cannot be ended by answering anti-Western intolerance with more intolerance.
		Buruma and Margalit are writing largely in response to professor Edward Said's thesis of Orientalism.
	www.amazon.ca /Occidentalism-Ian-Buruma/dp/1594200084 (1980 words)

	Amazon.de: Playing the Game: English Books: Ian Buruma (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Journalist and nonfiction author Buruma (Meridian ; God's Dust) has written often and eloquently of the odd intersections of East and West in Asia.
		A first novel from Buruma (Behind the Mask, 1984; God's Dust, 1989)--superficially about that most British of games, cricket, and one of its legendary players, but also a somewhat self-conscious and awkward meditation on nationality and cultural identity.
		The narrator, like Buruma, was born and educated in Holland and is a journalist specializing in East Asia.
	www.amazon.de /Playing-Game-Ian-Buruma/dp/0224027581 (453 words)

	Murder in Amsterdam - By Ian Buruma - Books - Review - New York Times
		Buruma grew up in The Hague, but the country to which he returns in this book is virtually unrecognizable to him, transformed by large numbers of Muslim immigrants from Turkey and Morocco.
		Buruma writes, savor irony, and perhaps because their political establishment is so dull, enjoy the politics of outrage.
		Buruma is not sure, and at the end he disappears in a puff of rhetorical smoke.
	travel.nytimes.com /2006/09/13/books/13grim.html (1038 words)

	YouTube - Ian Buruma on National Identity
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		Ian Buruma (Henry R. Luce Professor of Democracy, Human Rights & Journalism at Bard College, NY; Author of Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance) speaks on the topic of National Identity at the Salzburg Seminar session entitled "Immigration and Inclusion: Rethinking National Identity" (less)
	www.youtube.com /watch?v=bqTZKBpesKw (266 words)

	Amazon.com: Inventing Japan: 1853-1964 (Modern Library Chronicles): Books: Ian Buruma (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Just as impressive as Buruma's probing account of this cultural tragedy is his lucid analysis of Douglas MacArthur's remarkable--but finally flawed--achievement in guiding Japan toward the exemplary democracy that showcased its astonishing development in the 1964 Olympics, which Buruma takes as his end point.
		Buruma turns around and calls this an "infantile dependence" on American military strength (which it may be), but I wonder how this reality fits into Buruma's picture of a dangerous nation that could plunge into militarism again.
		Buruma himself is a defender of Britain's colonialism even though he is critical of Japan's.) The overwhelming tidalwave of Japanophobia disguised as academic tretise shapes opinions on Japan around the world, and consequently shapes Japan.
	www.amazon.com /Inventing-Japan-1853-1964-Library-Chronicles/dp/0812972864 (3435 words)

	Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal: Fair and Balanced Almost Every Day: Ian Buruma on Gunter Grass
		Buruma only suggests Grass' may be nostalgic for an era when lines between good and bad were sharply defined; Grass chose to be strident about Germans not forgetting the evil Naziism perpetrated when much of German society wanted to pretend it was all the work of a tiny minority.
		Buruma is pretty vague, and he doesn't really flesh out this point.
		OK, it's hard to be too sure what Buruma is implying...and your point about some kinds of nostalgia being dangerous,esp.re the rise of Naziism, is entirely correct.
	delong.typepad.com /sdj/2006/09/ian_buruma_on_g.html (1598 words)

	Amazon.fr : Conversations With John Schlesinger: Livres en anglais: Ian Buruma (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Buruma, it turns out, is Schlesinger's nephew—as a small child, he even had a brief cameo in one of his uncle's earliest short productions.
		Buruma, his nephew, talked with him about the movies, growing up Jewish in World War II Europe, and being a gay artist in 1950s London.
		A stroke silenced Schlesinger before the final conversations planned could be recorded, and Buruma's last few pages discuss the final poignant moments he shared with his famous uncle.
	www.amazon.fr /Conversations-John-Schlesinger-Ian-Buruma/dp/0375757635 (408 words)

	Exploring New Meanings of Travel in Contemporary Travel Writing
		The panelists are Ian Buruma, journalist and novelist; Caryl Phillips, novelist, travel writer, and professor of English at Barnard College; and Nancy Novogrod '71, senior vice president and editorial director of American Express Publishing and editor-in-chief of Travel + Leisure.
		While Nancy Novogrod is, perhaps, primarily concerned with travel as a business and a form of leisure, Caryl Phillips and Ian Buruma both use travel as a mode of witness and political exploration.
		Buruma was educated in Holland and Japan and has spent many years in Asia.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /offices/comm/csj/110802/travel.shtml (770 words)

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		Ian Buruma: Freedom cannot be decreed - signandsight
		French philosopher Pascal Bruckner accused Ian Buruma of propagating a form of multiculturalism that amounts to legal apartheid.
		Ian Buruma is a Dutch-born historian and journalist.
	www.signandsight.com /features/1161.html (2296 words)

	'Murder in Amsterdam,' by Ian Buruma - The New York Times Book Review - New York Times (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Buruma deplores this “offensiveness projected as a sign of sincerity, the venting of rage as a mark of moral honesty,” and he considers it very Dutch.
		Buruma is quite right, though, to suggest that Hirsi Ali’s praise of the Enlightenment, as a movement that “strips away culture, and leaves only the human individual,” has something in common with the promise of Islamism, which would strip away culture and leave only the individual and God.
		Buruma is not unsympathetic to Ellian and Hirsi Ali.
	www.nytimes.com /2006/09/10/books/review/Caldwell2.t.html?ex=1315540800&en=f65e07fc8e67a342&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss (1041 words)

	Ian Buruma - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ian Buruma talks with an attendee at the Texas Book Festival.
		Ian Buruma (born 1951) is an Anglo-Dutch writer and academic.
		Much of his work focuses on Asian culture, particularly that of 20th-century Japan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ian_Buruma (275 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Inventing Japan: Books: Ian Buruma (Site not responding. Last check: )
		"Buruma is very good at crisply making plain the falseness of many assumptions about Japan." --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
		Buruma’s books and articles are characterised by an easy writing style and a deep knowledge, even affection, for his topics.
		Buruma also has a talent for highlighting key facts in a new context, and in doing so triggering a response from even the more experienced reader.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Inventing-Japan-Ian-Buruma/dp/0753819759 (1619 words)

	God's Dust - Ian Buruma - Used Books (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Buruma writes with trenchant skepticism yet implicit sympathy about the "cultural confusion, the endless searching for meaning and national identity in contemporary Burma, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea and Japan.
		As a "secular European" and 10-year resident of Hong Kong and Tokyo, he is an ideal observer--objective and respectful, but aggressively inquiring--of these paradoxical nations lately made and unmade by Western influences.
		Based on a year's travel in Asia, Buruma's essays search past and present for causes and effects of cultural emergence.
	www.biblio.com /books/23821039.html (494 words)

	Vintage Catalog \| Anglomania by Ian Buruma
		In this lively and diverting social history, noted author Ian Buruma, himself the son of Dutch immigrants to England, provides an incisive look at anglophilia--and anglophobia--over the last two centuries.
		Buruma's fluency--the ease and erudition with which he mixes anecdote, personal reminiscence and reportage--should not disguise the seriousness of his book--.
		Ian Buruma is a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Institute for the Humanities in Washington, D.C. back to top
	www.randomhouse.com /vintage/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780375705366 (124 words)

	The Globalist \| Biography of Ian Buruma
		Ian Buruma was born in the Netherlands to a Dutch father and English mother in 1951.
		Though educated in both Holland and Japan, Ian Buruma spent a great portion of his life in Asia.
		Buruma has been a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Institute for the Humanities in Washington, D.C. How can you ensure that your readers can stay on top of the global issues that do matter to them — on a local, regional and national basis?
	www.theglobalist.com /DBWeb/AuthorBiography.aspx?AuthorId=25 (166 words)

	Nextbook: My Bachelor Uncle (Site not responding. Last check: )
		His nephew, Ian Buruma, looked up to Schlesinger and dreamed of becoming a filmmaker, going so far as to attend film school before making his reputation as a journalist.
		Buruma interviewed Schlesinger toward the end of his life and edited his reminiscences in Conversations with John Schlesinger.
		Ian Buruma is the author of books including Inventing Japan, Anglomania, and Conversations with John Schlesinger, from which this essay is excerpted.
	www.nextbook.org /cultural/feature.html?id=279 (914 words)

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