Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Bernard Lewis

Born: May 31, 1916
Died: May 19, 2018 (aged 101)
Bio: Bernard Lewis was a British American historian specializing in oriental studies. He is also known as a public intellectual and political commentator. Lewis is the Cleveland E.
Known for:
- What Went Wrong? (2002)
- The Crisis of Islam (2003)
- Islam and the West
- The Arabs in History
- The Emergence of Modern Turkey