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Since the death of Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1970 there has been no ideology to capture the imagination of the Arab world except Islamic fundamentalism. Any sense of completely secular Arab states ended with him and what we see happening today in the Middle East is a direct result of Western opposition to his strategies and ideals.
More than ever, the Arab world is anti-Western and teetering on disaster. This account of Nasser's life is tantamount to explaining whether the interests of the West and the Arab world are reconcilable. Nasser's ambitions came to an end when the West opposed him. A continuation of the Arabs' inherent opposition to the West and Israel, the Islamic fire this time is proving much harder to contain. |
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"A brilliant Arab-Western examination." Sunday Tribune
"Powerful. Aburish provides shameful details of Western complicity, cynical and mostly clandestine, in Saddam's reign of terror." Herald
"A chilling biography." Observer |
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(English Version)
"Through the history of the Aburish family, Saïd has told the story of Palestine more convincingly than any news report, political tract or formal history could have done."
Spectator
"A rich and intensely affecting work." New York Times Book Review
"A well-written and important book, which offers insights into Arab society in general, and the Palestinians in particular." Independent
(French Version)
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"For several decades now Saïd Aburish has been making Arab governments wince with pain and embarrassment. Why? Because among some Arab authors, he is almost alone in speaking the truth." Observer
"The value of Aburish's dashing and highly readable revisionism is to remind us that most Arabs have been ignored in their desire for democracy, human rights, and even-handedness in their relations with the West." The SundayTimes
"Excellent. Teachers should make it a required text in the history of the Middle East to counter misleading albeit beautiful tales of Lawrence of Arabia and his literary descendents." The Tablet |
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"Aburish is both gentle and condemnatory with Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat in this fist biography by another Palestinian... With many fresh insights... Above all, Aburish shows clearly how Arafat carefully reconstructed the Palestinian national identity which some Israeli leaders, like Golda Meier sought to deny and destro." International Herald Tribune
"The unflattering portrait by Saïd Aburish shows Arafat as a wily Arab tribal chief, heroic in his way, but utterly unsuited for the leadership of a modern state." Daily Telegraph
"A sad verdict on a man who once promised so much." Financial Times
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"This book raises important questions, not least of which is whether Washington can afford to blithely close its eyes to developments within Saudi Arabia." Newsday
"A highly unconventional and explosive book." International Herald Tribune
"A partisan, trenchant and valuable study." Independent on Sunday
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