After Isis: America, Iran and the Struggle for the Middle East 9657023092, 9789657023099

This book, based on four years of on-the-ground reporting, research in ten countries in the Middle East, a thousand hour

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After Isis: America, Iran and the Struggle for the Middle East
9657023092, 9789657023099

Since 1979, few rivalries have affected Middle Eastern politics as much as the rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Ho

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The Middle East today stands at an epoch. The artificial architecture created by the British and French is tearing apart

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The rapid expansion of ISIS and its swathe of territorial gains across the Middle East have been headline news since 201

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The US sees itself as being locked into a confrontation with Iran, its number one enemy since the invasion of Saddam Hus

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From 2001 to the present day, Patrick Cockburn's reporting from the conflicts that have roiled the Middle East and

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Rejecting the view of modern Middle Eastern history as an offshoot of global power politics, the authors argue that the

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A biography of Muhammad Musaddiq, who was prime minister of Iran between 1951 and 1953, until he was deposed in a CIA ba

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Muhammad Musaddiq was the first of the great charismatic anti-colonial campaigners of the post-war world. As Prime Minis

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