Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart
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| Rating | : | 4.54 (620 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B06XTTM27B |
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| Number of Pages | : | 297 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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A Must-Read for Those Interested in Current Events or the Middle East Brian Klein Fractured Lands is not only well-written and engaging, but also provides a well structured and relatively bias-free overview of the events in the past few years via the stories of a few individuals.I like to think of myself as well informed, as I keep abreast of the daily news from several different sources and have for years. But the middle east has been in such a constant state of flux that its certainly been hard to keep all of the event. Deeply sobering, and highly readable. I understand that the history is complex(!) Still, I wish the book covered more ground. Worddancer Redux I agree with those who think that this book is too short, and that this is something that--of necessity--winds up leaving out too much of the history, and sometimes omitting or simplifying complexities and parallels. There is a lot to be learned from looking at the racist, anthropologically ignorant post-WWI creation of Iraq in a larger frame that includes the partition of India, another multi-faceted disaster that resulted in separation of. Humanizing an Inhuman Situation The events of Syria and Libya and Iraq and Afghanistan and Pakistan, etc. etc. are so overwhelming and seemingly getting worse with no prospect of ever getting better. I cannot even bring myself to read newspaper articles about the subject, it's all I can do just to watch brief TV news reports. But it's important and whether we want to be or not, we are involved. It's far too late to imagine that we can stay out of the conflicts and their f
From this investigation emerges a rare view into a land in upheaval through the eyes of six individuals - the matriarch of a dissident Egyptian family; a Libyan Air Force cadet with divided loyalties; a Kurdish physician from a prominent warrior clan; a Syrian university student caught in civil war; an Iraqi activist for women's rights; and an Iraqi day laborer turned ISIS fighter. Few could predict that these convulsions, initially hailed in the West as a triumph of democracy, would give way to brutal civil war, the terrors of the Islamic State, and a global refugee crisis. But, as New York Times best-selling author Scott Anderson shows, the seeds of catastrophe had been sown long before. In this gripping account, Anderson examines the myriad complex causes of the region's profound unraveling, tracing the ideological conflicts of the present to their origins in the United States invasion of Iraq in 2003 and beyond. A probing and insightful work of reportage, Fractured Lands offers a penetrating portrait of the contemporary Arab world and brings the stunning realities of an unprecedented geopolitical tragedy into crystalline focus.. From the best-selling aut