<h4>N. S. (Nomi) Morris is a writer and lecturer based in Ojai, California. She is a former Middle East Bureau Chief for Knight Ridder Newspapers (now McClatchy).</h4>

N. S. Morris

The Soul of a City: Berlin and Memory

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Around the World

Reading the Middle East

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Politics

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

History

Reza Aslan, editor W.W. Norton and Company, 2010, 657 pp.

Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East

Lighting Darkened Corners

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors." — Simone Weil

Cultural Studies

N. S. (Nomi) Morris is a writer and lecturer based in Ojai, California. She is a former Middle East Bureau Chief for Knight Ridder Newspapers (now McClatchy).