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Black Wave

Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Rivalry That Unravelled the Middle East

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Black Wave

De : Kim Ghattas
Lu par : Kim Ghattas, Nan McNamara
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A timely and unprecedented examination of how the modern Middle East unravelled, and why it started with the pivotal year of 1979

'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 Holy Mosque in Mecca; and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Before this year, Saudi Arabia and Iran had been working allies and twin pillars of US strategy in the region - but the radical legacy of these events made them mortal enemies, unleashing a process that transformed culture, society, religion and geopolitics across the region for decades to come.

Drawing on a sweeping cast of characters across seven countries over forty years, Ghattas demonstrates how this rivalry for religious and cultural supremacy has fed intolerance, suppressed cultural expression, encouraged sectarian violence, birthed groups like Hezbollah and ISIS and, ultimately, upended the lives of millions. At once bold and intimate, Black Wave is a remarkable and engrossing story of the Middle East as it has never been told before.

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Kim Ghattas’s Black Wave is skillfully written but ideologically limited. While tracing the Saudi-Iranian rivalry with admirable depth, her treatment of the Muslim Brotherhood reveals a Western liberal bias, reducing a complex movement to a scapegoat while ignoring its profound contributions to African liberation and unity.
What Kim Ghattas fails to acknowledge is that the Brotherhood’s anti-colonial roots directly inspired North African independence movements across Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and Sudan, the northern pillar of Pan-African unity. When Kwame Nkrumah convened the first Pan-African Conference in Accra in 1958, the majority of nations present were Arab and Muslim. Without them there would be no OAU and no foundation for the United States of Africa.
For millions of Africans, Islamic identity and Pan-African identity are not contradictions, they are twin forces of resistance against Western domination, Kim Ghattas misses this completely.
Valuable journalism. Incomplete history.

Valuable journalism. Incomplete history.

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