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Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
- Seller Notes
- “Front Cover Page has Slight Curling Upward; Clean Inside Pages; Readable Copy; Solid Binding”
- Country of Origin
- United States
- Signed
- No
- Ex Libris
- No
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Original Language
- English
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- Inscribed
- No
- Edition
- First Picador Paperback Edition
- Vintage
- No
- Personalize
- No
- Type
- Foreign Affairs Paperback Book
- Unit Type
- Unit
- Literary Movement
- Post-Modernism
- Era
- 2020s
- Personalized
- No
- Unit Quantity
- 1
- ISBN
- 9781250789389
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Picador
ISBN-10
1250789389
ISBN-13
9781250789389
eBay Product ID (ePID)
22050087970
Product Key Features
Book Title
Black Wave : Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2021
Topic
World / Middle Eastern, Religion, Politics & State, Middle East / General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Religion, Political Science, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
10.2 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
956.05
Table Of Content
Note on Names and Spellings People Map Introduction Part I Revolution 1.Cassette Revolution 2.Today Tehran, Tomorrow Jerusalem 3.Bleeding Heart 4.Darkness Part II Competition 5.I Killed the Pharaoh 6.No Dupatta 7.Karbala in Beirut 8.Shia Kafir 9.Mecca Is Mine 10.Culture Wars 11.Black Wave 12.Generation 1979 Part III Revenge 13.Cain and Abel 14.Fracture 15.Surrender 16.Counterrevolution 17.Between ISIS and IRGC 18.Achilles' Heel 19.Murder on the Bosporus Conclusion Notes Acknowledgments Index
Synopsis
A New York Times Notable Book of 2020 "[A] sweeping and authoritative history" ( The New York Times Book Review ), Black Wave is an unprecedented and ambitious examination of how the modern Middle East unraveled and why it started with the pivotal year of 1979. Kim Ghattas seamlessly weaves together history, geopolitics, and culture to deliver a gripping read of the largely unexplored story of the rivalry between between Saudi Arabia and Iran, born from the sparks of the 1979 Iranian revolution and fueled by American policy. With vivid story-telling, extensive historical research and on-the-ground reporting, Ghattas dispels accepted truths about a region she calls home. She explores how Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shia Iran, once allies and twin pillars of US strategy in the region, became mortal enemies after 1979. She shows how they used and distorted religion in a competition that went well beyond geopolitics. Feeding intolerance, suppressing cultural expression, and encouraging sectarian violence from Egypt to Pakistan, the war for cultural supremacy led to Iran's fatwa against author Salman Rushdie, the assassination of countless intellectuals, the birth of groups like Hezbollah in Lebanon, the September 11th terrorist attacks, and the rise of ISIS. Ghattas introduces us to a riveting cast of characters whose lives were upended by the geopolitical drama over four decades: from the Pakistani television anchor who defied her country's dictator, to the Egyptian novelist thrown in jail for indecent writings all the way to the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018. Black Wave is both an intimate and sweeping history of the region and will significantly alter perceptions of the Middle East.
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