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"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"--
Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shia Iran, once allies and twin pillars of US strategy in the region, became mortal enemies after 1979. Ghattas weaves together history, geopolitics, and culture to show how the 1979 Iranian revolution-- fueled by American policy-- fed intolerance,...
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Publisher
Howard Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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"Sekulow and the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) tackle radical Islam head on, ... [examining what they see as] attempts by fundamentalist Muslims--both in the US and abroad--to destroy our legal system in favor of a system that would destroy our essential liberties. They [explore] terrorism in today's world and reflect on the recent Paris and San Bernardino attacks, as well as Russia, Syria, Iran, and continuous threats to our nation"--Amazon.com....
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Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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"As a nine-year-old Tehrani schoolgirl during the Iranian Revolution, Nazila Fathi watched her country change before her eyes. The revolutionaries--most of them poor, uneducated, and radicalized--seized jobs, housing, and positions of power, transforming Iranian society practically overnight. But this socioeconomic revolution had an unintended effect. As Fathi shows, the forces unleashed in 1979 inadvertently created a robust Iranian middle class,...
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