Black wave Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the forty-year rivalry that unraveled culture, religion and collective memory in the Middle East
Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shia Iran, once allies and twin pillars of US strategy in the region, became mortal enemies after 1979. Ghattas weaves together history, geopolitics, and culture to show how the 1979 Iranian revolution-- fueled by American policy-- fed intolerance, suppressed cultural expressi...
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[2020]
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Black wave : |b Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the forty-year rivalry that unraveled culture, religion and collective memory in the Middle East / |c by Kim Ghattas. |
| 250 | |a First edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York, NY : |b Henry Holt and Company, |c [2020] | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©2020 | |
| 300 | |a xvii, 377 pages : |b map ; |c 25 cm | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a PART I. REVOLUTION -- Cassette Revolution -- Today Tehran, Tomorrow Jerusalem -- Bleeding Heart -- Darkness. PART II. COMPETITION -- I Killed the Pharaoh -- No Dupatta -- Kerbala in Beirut -- Shia Kafir -- Mecca is Mine -- Détente -- Black Wave -- Generation 9-11. Part III. WAR -- Cain and Abel -- Fracture -- Surrender -- Counter-Revolution -- Between ISIS and IRGC -- Achilles' Heel -- Murder on the Bosporus. | |
| 520 | |a Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shia Iran, once allies and twin pillars of US strategy in the region, became mortal enemies after 1979. Ghattas weaves together history, geopolitics, and culture to show how the 1979 Iranian revolution-- fueled by American policy-- fed intolerance, suppressed cultural expression, and encouraged sectarian violence from Egypt to Pakistan, leading to the assassination of countless intellectuals, the birth of groups like Hezbollah in Lebanon, the September 11th terrorist attacks, and the rise of ISIS. -- adapted from jacket | ||
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