Las barriadas de Lima

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Entre el versículo del Deuteronomio y el día de hoy median cuatro mil años durante los cuales la Historia de Israel se desenvuelve como una unidad en medio de vicisitudes terribles y dolorosas, una trayectoria sorprendente. De acuerdo con las leyes y tendencias que gobiernan el suceder histórico el Pueblo debería haber desaparecido pero Israel desafía las coordenadas de tiempo y espacio.

Desde el umbral se mira el horizonte; y desde México puede atisbarse a lo lejos el acontecer de otras sociedades. De esa premisa, que acepta que el mundo es ancho pero no ajeno, parte Carlos Martínez Assad para examinar los encuentros y desencuentros entre Oriente y Occidente. A partir de la crítica a la visión orientalista, que se inventó un mundo árabe más cercano de la idealización romántica que de la realidad histórica, Cruzar el umbral al Medio Oriente ofrece una mirada a una pequeña región cuyas dimensiones no corresponden con lo grande de sus aportaciones. En sus páginas...

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