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Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Rivalry That Unravelled the Middle East by Kim Ghattas (Paperback, 2021)
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Author: Kim Ghattas. At once bold and intimate,Black Wave is a remarkable and engrossing story of the Middle East as it has never been told before. Was it always so?. Title: Black Wave. Shortlisted for the Cundhill History Prize 2020.
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'Blistering' Sunday Times 'Indispensable' Observer 'Fascinating' The Times 'Brilliant' Peter Frankopan 'Revelatory' Lindsey Hilsum A timely and unprecedented examination of how the modern Middle East unravelled, and why it started with the pivotal year of 1979. Shortlisted for the Cundhill History Prize 2020 'What happened to us?' For decades, the question has haunted the Arab and Muslim world, heard across Iran and Syria, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, and in the author's home country of Lebanon. Was it always so? When did the extremism, intolerance and bloodletting of today displace the region's cultural promise and diversity? In Black Wave, award-winning journalist and author Kim Ghattas argues that the turning point in the modern history of the Middle East can be located in the toxic confluence of three major events in 1979: the Iranian revolution; the siege of the Holy Mosque in Mecca; and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Before this year, Saudi Arabia and Iran had been working allies and twin pillars of US strategy in the region - but the radical legacy of these events made them mortal enemies, unleashing a process that transformed culture, society, religion and geopolitics across the region for decades to come. Drawing on a sweeping cast of characters across seven countries over forty years, Ghattas demonstrates how this rivalry for religious and cultural supremacy has fed intolerance, suppressed cultural expression, encouraged sectarian violence, birthed groups like Hezbollah and ISIS and, ultimately, upended the lives of millions. At once bold and intimate, Black Wave is a remarkable and engrossing story of the Middle East as it has never been told before.Product Identifiers
PublisherHEADLINE Publishing Group
ISBN-139781472271136
eBay Product ID (ePID)24046520641
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Number of Pages400 Pages
Publication NameBlack Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Rivalry That Unravelled the Middle East
LanguageEnglish
SubjectGovernment, History
Publication Year2021
TypeTextbook
AuthorKim Ghattas
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height194 mm
Item Weight280 g
Item Width128 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorKim Ghattas
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- 15 Apr, 2022
The story is still unfolding - we have further to go
Quite a dense analysis of events that are profoundly significant to us all today - beautifully written so a pleasure to plod towards the end (trying to remember everything on the way!)Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
