Cruelty and Silence: War, Tyranny, Uprising, and the Arab World
A History, Politics, Nonfiction book. Very disturbing, enlightening read. Puts the arab/israeli, the arab/arab and the arab/non-arab conflicts into the context of a far...
The Iraqi dissident Kanan Makiya brought the attention of the world to the brutality of Saddam Hussein's regime in his powerful 1989 bestseller Republic of Fear. Now, writing for the first time under his own name, Makiya confronts the broad realities of tyranny in the Middle East and the moral failure of Arab and pro-Arab intellectuals to repudiate it.Makiya first gives us the stories of Khalil, Abu Haydar, Omar, Mustafa, and Taimour—the Arab and Kurdish heroes of this book. Their testimony, revealing the true extent of occupation, prejudice, revolution, and routinized violence, is a compelling example of the literature of witness. He then links these tales of survival to an examination of the Arab intelligentsia's response to Saddam Hussein and the Gulf War, comparing the flood of condemnation of the West with the trickle of protest over Saddam's mass murder campaign against the Kurds.In his...
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- ISBN: 9780393311419 / 393311414
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Very disturbing, enlightening read. Puts the arab/israeli, the arab/arab and the arab/non-arab conflicts into the context of a far greater picture, demonstrating the practically insurmountable barriers to peaceful solutions to the dilemmas these raise. Silence is complicity and we are all guilty if we pretend that cruelty is acceptable...
