The Russell Cawthorn Collection
The Great War 1914-1918, and Associated Conflicts The Ottoman Empire & Further East: Then to Now East of Constantinople/Istanbul The Arab Middle East
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Into the Hands of Soldiers. Freedom and Chaos in Egypt and the Middle East
ISBN
9781408898468
Purchase Price
£20.00 (new)
Date Purchased
November 13, 2018
Publisher
Bloomsbury Circus (2018, London)
Notes
This book was first published, also in 2018, in the United States by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC. In 2011, Egyptians shook off millenia of autocracy and elected a Muslim Brother as their President. Then, two years later, a military coup replaced him with a new strongman, Abdel Fattah el Sisi, who proceeded to crack down on any dissent with a degree of ferocity. The author arrived in Egypt with his family less than 6 months before the uprising first broke out. In this book, he lives through this period of Egyptian history. He traces how authoritarianism was allowed to reclaim Egypt. Kirkpatrick's message is simple: the failings of decades of autocratic rule are the reasons for the chaos we see across the Arab world. Understanding the story of what happened in those years can help readers make some sense of everything taking place across the region - from the terrorist attacks in North Sinai to the bedlam in Syria and Libya.
9781408898468
Purchase Price
£20.00 (new)
Date Purchased
November 13, 2018
Publisher
Bloomsbury Circus (2018, London)
Notes
This book was first published, also in 2018, in the United States by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC. In 2011, Egyptians shook off millenia of autocracy and elected a Muslim Brother as their President. Then, two years later, a military coup replaced him with a new strongman, Abdel Fattah el Sisi, who proceeded to crack down on any dissent with a degree of ferocity. The author arrived in Egypt with his family less than 6 months before the uprising first broke out. In this book, he lives through this period of Egyptian history. He traces how authoritarianism was allowed to reclaim Egypt. Kirkpatrick's message is simple: the failings of decades of autocratic rule are the reasons for the chaos we see across the Arab world. Understanding the story of what happened in those years can help readers make some sense of everything taking place across the region - from the terrorist attacks in North Sinai to the bedlam in Syria and Libya.