Black wave : Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the forty-year rivalry that unraveled culture, religion, and collective memory in the Middle East
(2020)
By:
Ghattas, Kim
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
955.053/GHATTAS,K
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2020
©2020
©2020
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
xvii, 377 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781250131201, 1250131200 :, 9781250131201
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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 -- Culture wars -- Black Wave -- Generation 9-11 -- Part III. WAR. Cain and Abel -- Fracture -- Surrender -- Counterrevolution -- Between ISIS and IRGC -- Achilles' Heel -- Murder on the Bosporus
"The bestselling author of The Secretary tells the gripping story of the real roots of the Sunni-Shia conflict in Middle East in the 1979 Iran Revolution that changed the region forever"--