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发表于2024-11-09
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Novelistic and character-driven, Black Wave is an unprecedented and ambitious examination of how the modern Middle East unraveled and why it started with the pivotal year of 1979.
Kim Ghattas seamlessly weaves together history, geopolitics, and culture to deliver a gripping read of the largely unexplored story of the rivalry between between Saudi Arabia and Iran, born from the sparks of the 1979 Iranian revolution and fueled by American policy.
With vivid story-telling, extensive historical research and on-the-ground reporting, Ghattas dispels accepted truths about a region she calls home. She explores how Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shia Iran, once allies and twin pillars of US strategy in the region, became mortal enemies after 1979. She shows how they used and distorted religion in a competition that went well beyond geopolitics. Feeding intolerance, suppressing cultural expression, and encouraging sectarian violence from Egypt to Pakistan, the war for cultural supremacy led to Iran’s fatwa against author Salman Rushdie, the assassination of countless intellectuals, the birth of groups like Hezbollah in Lebanon, the September 11th terrorist attacks, and the rise of ISIS.
Ghattas introduces us to a riveting cast of characters whose lives were upended by the geopolitical drama over four decades: from the Pakistani television anchor who defied her country’s dictator, to the Egyptian novelist thrown in jail for indecent writings all the way to the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018. Black Wave is both an intimate and sweeping history of the region and will significantly alter perceptions of the Middle East.
Kim Ghattas covers international affairs for the BBC as well as Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. She was the BBC's State Department correspondent from 2008 to 2013 and traveled regularly with the secretary of state. She was previously a Middle East correspondent for the BBC and the Financial Times, based in Beirut. Ghattas was part of an Emmy Award-winning BBC team covering the Lebanon-Israel conflict of 2006. Her work has also been published in Time magazine, the Boston Globe, and the Washington Post and she appears regularly on MSNBC and NPR as a commentator.
作者从霍梅尼的流放写起,基本跨越了40年的时间。读后发现,1.这些穆斯林国家的悲剧似乎都源于霍梅尼的回国执政;2.有什么样的政府就有什么样的人民;3.以为新的当政者会带来新的希望,可事实并不如此;4.别再说什么9012年的话了,历史其实正在倒退。
评分作者从霍梅尼的流放写起,基本跨越了40年的时间。读后发现,1.这些穆斯林国家的悲剧似乎都源于霍梅尼的回国执政;2.有什么样的政府就有什么样的人民;3.以为新的当政者会带来新的希望,可事实并不如此;4.别再说什么9012年的话了,历史其实正在倒退。
评分对中东最近四十年的巨变梳理得非常好的一本书,适合扫盲。在Goodreads上有读者盛赞可类比Babara Tuchman的Guns of August(一战历史)。加速国家的国民都无法避免的一个问题:“何以至此?”作者pinpoint了一个时间点—1979,伊朗伊斯兰革命、麦加天房被占领事件、苏联入侵阿富汗,从此沙特和伊朗陷入了宗教派系竞争(逊尼vs什叶)+地缘政治争霸的恶性循环死局。沙特对外到处大撒????币、对内默许养蛊终究反噬(养出一堆极端分子鄙视沙特皇室虚伪不虔诚所以恐怖主义炸到自己家门口来了),我一个拆腻子都看出了一丝熟悉的味道。作者对“沉默的大多数”始终有信心。当我们责问“为何温和穆斯林不站出来反抗/谴责”时,扪心自问我们温和拆腻子在网络被狂热极端粉红淹没是什么境遇,其实很相似。
评分作者从霍梅尼的流放写起,基本跨越了40年的时间。读后发现,1.这些穆斯林国家的悲剧似乎都源于霍梅尼的回国执政;2.有什么样的政府就有什么样的人民;3.以为新的当政者会带来新的希望,可事实并不如此;4.别再说什么9012年的话了,历史其实正在倒退。
评分作者从霍梅尼的流放写起,基本跨越了40年的时间。读后发现,1.这些穆斯林国家的悲剧似乎都源于霍梅尼的回国执政;2.有什么样的政府就有什么样的人民;3.以为新的当政者会带来新的希望,可事实并不如此;4.别再说什么9012年的话了,历史其实正在倒退。
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Black Wave pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024