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Black Wave - Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Rivalry That Unravelled the Middle East (Hardcover)
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Black Wave - Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Rivalry That Unravelled the Middle East (Hardcover)
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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 '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.
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