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Faith At War
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Faith at War: A Journey on the Frontlines of Islam, from Baghdad to Timbuktu |
Well over a year after the book's first release, one paragraph alone validates the continuing worth of Yaroslav Trofimov's Faith At War. Although buried in chapter 12, among seemingly more telling fare, had a few planners in high positions in several countries took it seriously last year, a lot of embarrassing reckless victory promises and glibly proclaimed regional "pangs" would not have issued forth:
True to is reputation, Hezbollah proved the most efficient organization I have come across in the Middle East...[Each] interview would happen exactly as planned. In my dealings with the U.S. military, I never saw such precision.
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The Selected Writings of Eqbal Ahmad
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The Selected Writings of Eqbal Ahmad |
Although Eqbal Ahmad's work spans a huge array of questions and countries, the theme of North-South, decolonization and its brutal legacies, runs throughout this long collection of his essays. Ahmad's close relationship with a host of revolutionary/national liberation movements allowed him to reframe the major problems of the post-WWII era in terms decolonization, national liberation struggles, and counterinsurgency, rather than the bipolar-world, superpower-based framework that characterized much Cold War thinking.
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Urban Forms and Colonial Confrontations: Algiers Under French Rule
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Urban Forms and Colonial Confrontations: Algiers Under French Rule |
The e-book version is free of charge.
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