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In this Arab time: the pursuit of deliverance

Book information

Publisher
Hoover Institution Press
Year
2014
ISBN
9780817914943, 9780817914967, 9780817914974, 9780817914981, 0817914943, 081791496X, 0817914978, 0817914986
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
787 kB (806303 bytes)
Series
Hoover Institution Press publication no. 623
Pages
321 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52

Description

In this collection of bold and wide-ranging essays, Fouad Ajami offers his views on the Middle East, commenting on the state of affairs in Iraq, Iran, Syria, Egypt and more. He brings into focus the current struggles of the region through detailed historical standpoints and a highly personal perspective. The author discusses such landmark past events as the Algerian civil war, the state of the Arab world shortly after 9/11, and the pan-Arab awakening that began in 2011, as well as current events such as the Syrian rebellion and the repercussions of its brutal response from Bashar al-Assad. In addition, he sheds new light on some of the significant players in the Arab world, past and present, from Naguib Mahfouz, the Nobel laureate of the Arabs, to Ziad Jarrah—the terrorist who is thought to have been at the controls of the plane forced down by its heroic passengers in Shanksville, Pennsylvania on 9/11.

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