Book Reviews
The result of frequent technological issues has forced me to break my posts into their own specific chapters and keep them as short as possible,. To keep the continuity of the intertwined (yet, vastly different) narratives I will provide a quick outline prefacing the works that will be covered in the subsequent analysis. In order to address the substantial gap between necessary knowledge of Middle Eastern customary practices, cultures, religions, political structures and socio-economic systems, the book review section of the Blog will be structured as follows:
1. The Iranian Revolution
a. Works evaluated
i. After Khomeini: Iran Under His Successors by Said Amir Arjomand
ii. Khomeini: Life of the Ayatollah by Baqer Moin
iii. The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam will Shape the Future by Vali Nasr
2. The Arab-Israeli Conflict
a. Works evaluated
i. The Ethnic Cleaning of Palestine by Ilan Pappe
ii. The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood by Rashid Khalidi
iii. The Israel-Palestine Conflict: One Hundred Years of War by James L. Gelvin
iv. One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate by Tom Segev
3. While delving so deeply into the worlds of Iran and Israel time grew short on the possibility of providing three or more works on the “War on Terror” before Wednesday. Therefore, out of respect to historical accuracy, and to my cognitive abilities, these will be postponed until later in the week.
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