Away from Chaos The Middle East and the Challenge to the West by Gilles
Kepel is a new book by Columbia University Press; I attended this summer also the event with the author and the editor of the Financial Times organized by Columbia. I remembered I followed the entire chat because I was driving home, and connection was great. I really enjoyed it!
What can you find in this book?
Many answers to all your questions if you have any, regarding the Middle East! in a lucid and at the same time dramatically reconstruction of the last four decades, sometimes convulsive, sometimes tragical. Personally I thought that the Middle East was...complicated, but I wouldn't never thought that the level of complication could be so big.
Everything start from that crucial war in 1973 the one of Yom Kippur/Ramadan. More later first Gulf War in 1990's, the birth of al-Qaeda and the horrible, terrible, still unthinkable event of 9/11.
The War on Terror started. It wasn't anymore a war in a battle field, it was a terror spread everywhere, with unknown and for the first time in recent history, innocent victims. Since there, Western countries are attacked pretty often; today France is under attack and close to its second lockdown because of Covid-19.
The Birth of ISIS, was the legacy left by bin Laden; at the same time the wild wind of Arab Spring didn't give answers didn't create later a new democratic system in grade of giving to the population any kind of stability, but just more desperation and necessity of going away; then the arrival of wagons of wagons of refugees in Westwern countries.
The years of Trump were dramatically nasty thanks to his bans, because of his inability of being a good supporter for desperate situations and desperate people, re-changing at the same time again foreign policies.
The most clear book I read till now on the Middle East.
Highly recommended.
I thank Columbia University Press for the physical copy of this book.
Anna Maria Polidori
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