A Rage for Order A Rage for Order

A Rage for Order

The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISIS

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Publisher Description

The definitive work of literary journalism on the Arab Spring and its troubled aftermath

In 2011, a wave of revolution spread through the Middle East as protesters demanded an end to tyranny, corruption, and economic decay. From Egypt to Yemen, a generation of young Arabs insisted on a new ethos of common citizenship. Five years later, their utopian aspirations have taken on a darker cast as old divides reemerge and deepen. In one country after another, brutal terrorists and dictators have risen to the top.

A Rage for Order
is the first work of literary journalism to track the tormented legacy of what was once called the Arab Spring. In the style of V. S. Naipaul and Lawrence Wright, the distinguished New York Times correspondent Robert F. Worth brings the history of the present to life through vivid stories and portraits. We meet a Libyan rebel who must decide whether to kill the Qaddafi-regime torturer who murdered his brother; a Yemeni farmer who lives in servitude to a poetry-writing, dungeon-operating chieftain; and an Egyptian doctor who is caught between his loyalty to the Muslim Brotherhood and his hopes for a new, tolerant democracy.

Combining dramatic storytelling with an original analysis of the Arab world today, A Rage for Order captures the psychic and actual civil wars raging throughout the Middle East, and explains how the dream of an Arab renaissance gave way to a new age of discord.

GENRE
Politics & Current Events
RELEASED
2016
April 26
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
288
Pages
PUBLISHER
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
SELLER
Macmillan
SIZE
975.7
KB

Customer Reviews

Johnawc ,

Easy read but will soon be dated

Most of the book is first hand accounts by the author with the occasional retelling of stories from his sources. It is an easy read and it is coherent in its vignettes. However, the merging of all the internal Arab country's internal conflicts seems forced. In the future this may become source material for historical analysis, but it will be dated for the casual reader. In short, good but not one to write home to mom about.

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