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The Age of Jihad: Islamic State and the Great War for the Middle East
Patrick Cockburn
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Description for The Age of Jihad: Islamic State and the Great War for the Middle East
Hardback. .
The Age of Jihad charts the turmoil of today's Middle East and the devastating role the West has played in the region from 2001 to the present. Beginning with the US-led invasion of Afghanistan, Cockburn explores the vast geopolitical struggle that is the Sunni-Shia conflict, a clash that shapes the war on terror, western military interventions, the evolution of the insurgency, the civil wars in Yemen, Libya and Syria, the Arab Spring, the fall of regional dictators, and the rise of Islamic State.
As Cockburn shows in arresting detail, Islamic State did not explode into existence in Syria in ... Read more
The Age of Jihad charts the turmoil of today's Middle East and the devastating role the West has played in the region from 2001 to the present. Beginning with the US-led invasion of Afghanistan, Cockburn explores the vast geopolitical struggle that is the Sunni-Shia conflict, a clash that shapes the war on terror, western military interventions, the evolution of the insurgency, the civil wars in Yemen, Libya and Syria, the Arab Spring, the fall of regional dictators, and the rise of Islamic State.
As Cockburn shows in arresting detail, Islamic State did not explode into existence in Syria in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Verso Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
828g
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784784492
SKU
V9781784784492
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About Patrick Cockburn
Patrick Cockburn is a Middle East correspondent for the Independent and has worked previously for the Financial Times. He has written three books on Iraq's recent history, including the National Book Circle Awards- shortlisted The Occupation and Saddam Hussein: An American Obsession (with Andrew Cockburn), as well as a memoir, The Broken Boy, and, with his son, a book on ... Read more
Reviews for The Age of Jihad: Islamic State and the Great War for the Middle East
Quite simply, the best Western journalist at work in the Middle East today.
Seymour M Hersh
One of the best informed on-the-ground journalists. He was almost always correct on Iraq.
Sidney Blumenthal, in an email to Hillary Clinton
Patrick Cockburn spotted the emergence of ISIS much earlier than anybody else and wrote about it with a ... Read more
Seymour M Hersh
One of the best informed on-the-ground journalists. He was almost always correct on Iraq.
Sidney Blumenthal, in an email to Hillary Clinton
Patrick Cockburn spotted the emergence of ISIS much earlier than anybody else and wrote about it with a ... Read more