"One of the things that I always valued so much about Indonesia, when I was growing up, was people were devout Muslims…"

"The political significance of Indonesian Islam, including Javanese Islam, stems in no small measure from the fact tha…"

"Like other Muslims, Indonesian Islamic leaders—reformists, hardly less than orthodox—were thus by Western standards n…"

"have covered so many wars in so many countries. In Iraq, you could always have got unlucky and caught up in a suicide…"

"In Syria, the war that I witnessed was different: It was one fought among civilians, among neighbors."

"Her work usually covers "conflict, humanitarian issues, and stories about women and politics" and is largely based in…"

"Afghanistan never did have any monuments on the world heritage list. As far as I know, nine different monuments have …"

"It is strange but true that the type and style of bangles that women wear in Rajasthan today, or the vermilion that t…"

"This leads us to the question of the Indus religion. Many scholars ,both foreign and Indian, are very reluctant to fi…"

"We do not suggest that Hinduism, as we find it today, was there in the Indus civilization. All that we would say is t…"