Join Lewis Lapham and contributors to Lapham’s Quarterly for our inaugural cruise, in partnership with PONANT, Cultural Cruises & Expeditions. Friends of the Quarterly who will be on board include Tom Holland, who has presented numerous radio and television productions about the Middle East and is the author of In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire, and acclaimed journalist Lawrence Osborne, author of The Wet and the Dry, a history and travelogue about alcohol and the Muslim world.

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