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Author Wright, Robin B., 1948-

Title Dreams and shadows : the future of the Middle East / Robin Wright.

Publication Info. New York : Penguin Press, 2008.

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 Moore Stacks  DS44 .W87 2008    Available  ---
Description 464 pages : map ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical reference (pages 443-450) and index.
Summary With a solid, thirty-five-year background in Middle East reporting, Ms. Wright offers an extraordinary tour of this volatile and restless region--the ideas and movements driving change across the region, the obstacles facing the transformation of the Middle East, and the players and events in Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Morocco, Turkey, the Gulf states, and the Palestinian territories--that translate into a coherent vision of what lies ahead.
Contents The Middle East : the propects -- The Palestinians : the conundrum -- Egypt : the turning points -- Egypt : the players -- Lebanon : the dreamers -- Lebanon : the shadows -- Syria : the outlaws -- Iran : the revolutionaries -- Iran : the reactionaries -- Morocco : the compromises -- Iraq and the United States : the furies.
Subject Middle East -- Politics and government -- 21st century.
Middle East.
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 21st century
ISBN 9781594201110
1594201110