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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 Ho

Black Wave

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      Publisher Headline Publishing Group
      Published 7 January 2021
      ISBN-13 9781472271136
      978-1472271136
      ISBN-10 1472271130
      Also in:
      History Middle Eastern history Social and cultural history Politics, Philosophy & Society International relations

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ''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 Ho

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