Storm from the East
The Struggle Between the Arab World and the Christian West
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Today, the Bush Doctrine aims to free the Arab peoples from political oppression and create a democratic Iraq. So why are Arabs, and Iraqis in particular, so suspicious of our efforts? The explanation, Viorst says, is simple: “What the American leadership has miscalculated, or simply dismissed, is Arab nationalism.” In Storm from the East, Viorst offers a balanced, lucid, and vital history of America’s uneasy relationship with the Arab world and argues that brutal conflict in the region will continue until the West, with the United States taking the lead, honors the Arabs’ insistence on deciding their own destiny.
Viorst examines the long struggle of the Arab world to overthrow Western hegemony. He explores the Arab experiences with democracy and military despotism; Nasserite socialism in Egypt and Ba’athism in Syria and Iraq; tribal monarchy in Saudi Arabia and Jordan; guerrilla warfare waged by the Palestinians; and, finally, Islamic rebellion culminating in Osama bin Laden’s extremist al-Qaeda. All have the same goal: the liberation of the Arabs from foreign domination.
Storm from the East is a powerful work that, like no other, limns the political, religious, and social roots of Arab nationalism and the present-day unrest in the Middle East.
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- ISBN: 9780307431851
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- ISBN: 9780307431851
- File size: 703 KB
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- English
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May 1, 2006
Viorst (In the Shadow of the Prophet: The Struggle for the Soul of Islam), a veteran writer on the Middle East, presents a regional overview, focusing mainly on the 20th century. He finds nothing new in the current conflict and explains Middle Eastern reluctance to embrace democracy as the result of decades of broken Western promises. This is a good summary for the general reader in search of historical background to today -s news.Copyright 2006 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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