'Brilliant' PETER FRANKOPAN'Blistering' SUNDAY TIMES'Indispensable' OBSERVER'Fascinating' THE TIMES'Revelatory' LINDSEY HILSUM____________________A timely and unprecedented examination of how the modern Middle East unravelled, and why it started with the pivotal year of 1979. Shortlisted for the Cundhill History Prize 2020

Het is bijna niet voor te stellen, maar soennitisch Saoedi-Arabië en sjiitisch Iran waren lange tijd bondgenoten. En toen brak in 1979 de Iraanse revolutie uit, werd de Heilige Moskee in Mekka belegerd en trok de Sovjet-Unie Afghanistan binnen. Saoedi-Arabië en Iran werden felle tegenstanders en exploiteerden religie in hun rivaliserende strijd. Het gevolg: sektarisch geweld, het ontstaan van groeperingen als Hezbollah, de 9/11-aanslagen en de opkomst van is.Zwarte golf bes...

A New York Times Notable Book of 2020**“[A] sweeping and authoritative history" (The New York Times Book Review), Black Waveis 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...

A New York Times bestseller—the first inside account to be published about Hillary Clinton's time as Secretary of State from a BBC journalist.As President Barack Obama's secretary of state, Hillary Clinton set out to repair America's image worldwide—and her own. From 2008-2012, BBC foreign correspondent Kim Ghattas had unparalleled access to Clinton and her entourage, and she weaves a fast-paced, gripping account of life...

入圍2020年坎迪爾歷史獎（Cundill History Prize）入選《紐約時報》（New York Times）2020年關注書籍入選《科克斯書評》（Kirkus Reviews）2020年最佳非小說類書籍入選《金融時報》（Financial Times）2020年最佳政治類書籍葛塔藉由本書給予了讀者許多精彩的故事，可看到西亞地區發生許多牽一髮而動全身的事件。……一九七九年之後的西亞與國際局勢，伊朗的革命確實在其中產生重要影響。在這時代若以伊朗作為觀察西亞局勢發展的中心，並不會過於誇張。葛塔以一九七九年之後的伊朗作為本書的主要角色，可見她了解若要觀察今日西亞局勢，必須把伊朗放在最核心的位置。──陳立樵（輔仁大學歷史系副教授）／專文導讀當代中東的面貌是如何形成的？極端主義、恐怖分子為何成了中東世界的代名詞？1979年為什麼是中東歷史重要的關鍵時間點？1979年，伊朗革命、麥加禁寺圍困事件與蘇聯入侵阿富汗相繼發生。金姆．葛塔在《...

A timely and unprecedented examination of how the modern Middle East unravelled, and why it started with the pivotal year of 1979'What happened to us?'For decades, the question has haunted the Arab and Muslim world, heard across Iran and Syria, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, and in the author's home country of Lebanon. Was it always so? When did the extremism, intolerance and bloodletting of today displace the region's cultural promise and dive...

In November 2008, Hillary Clinton agreed to work for her former rival. As President Barack Obama's secretary of state, she set out to repair America's image around the world—and her own. For the following four years, BBC foreign correspondent Kim Ghattas had unparalleled access to Clinton and her entourage, and she weaves a fast-paced, gripping account of life on the road with Clinton in The Secretary.With the perspective of one who is both an insider and an outsider, Ghat...

A work of true crime following one American family's search for the truth after a 1984 murder in war-torn Beirut, where the Iranian revolution collided with the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, setting off the geopolitical conflagration that burns to this day, from acclaimed and bestselling author Kim Ghattas.On January 18, 1984, Malcolm Kerr, president of the American University of Beirut, was assassinated by a pair of gunmen outside ...

Midden-Oostenexpert over de oorsprong van de huidige conflicten in het Midden-OostenIn 1984 werd Malcolm Kerr, rector van de American University of Beirut, vermoord in een stad verscheurd door oorlog. Kerrs dood werd niet onderzocht en de familie bleef met veel vragen achter. Met de ontrafeling van het moordmysterie legt Midden-Oostenexpert en succesvol auteur Kim Ghattas ook de complexe geopolitieke situatie van het Midden-Oosten bloot.Libanon was in de ja...

A work of true crime following one American family’s search for answers after a 1984 murder in war-torn Beirut, where the Iranian revolution collided with the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, setting off the geopolitical conflagration that burns to this dayOn January 18, 1984, Malcolm Kerr, president of the American University of Beirut, was assassinated by a pair of gunmen outside his office. His murder, in the wake of the bombing of the US Marines’ barracks, Palestin...

A work of true crime following one American family’s search for answers after a 1984 murder in war-torn Beirut, where the Iranian revolution collided with the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, setting off the geopolitical conflagration that burns to this dayOn January 18, 1984, Malcolm Kerr, president of the American University of Beirut, was assassinated by a pair of gunmen outside his office. His murder, in the wake of the bombing of the US Marines’ barracks, Palestin...