Black Wave
Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
(Sprache: Englisch)
A New York Times Notable Book of 2020
"[A] sweeping and authoritative history" (The New York Times Book Review), Black Wave ...
"[A] sweeping and authoritative history" (The New York Times Book Review), Black Wave ...
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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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Black Wave “
Note on Names and SpellingsPeople
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
Autoren-Porträt von Kim Ghattas
Kim Ghattas is an Emmy-award winning journalist, analyst, and author with more than 20 years of experience covering the Middle East, international affairs, and US foreign policy for the BBC, the Financial Times and de Volkskrant. She is currently a contributing writer for The Atlantic magazine, a regular contributor to the Financial Times, and a 2023-2024 Inaugural Distinguished Fellow at Columbia University's Institute for Global Politics. Ghattas is the author of The Secretary, the New York Times best-seller about US foreign policy and her travels around the world with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Her second book Black Wave, about the Saudi-Iran rivalry, was named a New York Times notable book in 2020 and has since become a reference for universities and diplomats. Ghattas is currently writing her third book, which revisits Lebanon¿s civil war as the origin story of the US-Iran clash in the Middle East.
As a leading voice on Middle Eastern affairs, Ghattas shares her expertise on risk and opportunities in regional and geopolitical trends with a variety of key players and institutions in the region and in the United States. She serves on the board of trustees of the American University of Beirut and was chair of the board of directors for the Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism network from 2020 to 2023. She sits on the advisory council of the Atlas for Impunity. Ghattas is also a former nonresident senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (2017¿2022), a former public policy fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2017) and a former Civitella Ranieri fellow (2019).
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Kim Ghattas
- 2021, 400 Seiten, Masse: 13,5 x 20,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Picador
- ISBN-10: 1250789389
- ISBN-13: 9781250789389
- Erscheinungsdatum: 19.01.2021
Sprache:
Englisch
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