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Book SynopsisThe lands and coasts across the Bab el Mandeb-the tiny strait that separates the Red Sea from the Indian Ocean-at the southern tip of the Red Sea, have for centuries had a forbidding reputation as lands of piracy and privation. In Jihad in the Arabian Sea, Camille Pecastaing examines the twenty-first-century challenges facing this troubled and treacherous region. He looks at the past and present of the key players in the area, including Somalia, Yemen, Eritrea, Djibouti, the Sudan, and Ethiopia, reviewing the terrorist activities of Al Qaeda, the state of lawlessness that has led to the rise of piracy in the western Indian Ocean, the rise of the radical Shabab group, and the spread of extremist forms of Islam in the south. Pecastaing displays a real feel for the land, seamlessly blending history and current headlines to paint a picture of a region that, for most of the past two thousand years, has never quite evolved into the era of the modern state. He shows how the current challenges
Table of Contents
- Chapter 1: The Gates of Tears
- Chapter 2: In the Land of the Mad Mullah: Somalia
- Chapter 3: In the Land of the Imam: Yemen
- Chapter 4: In the Land of the Mahdi: Sudan
- Chapter 5: War at Sea
- Chapter 6: The Rise of the Shabab
- Chapter 7: Al Qaeda Redux
- Chapter 8: The Sad Lands
