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Author Amos, Deborah.

Title Eclipse of the Sunnis : power, exile, and upheaval in the Middle East / Deborah Amos.

Publication Info. New York : PublicAffairs, [2010]
©2010

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  DS59.S86 A66 2010    Available  ---
Edition 1st ed.
Description xx, 230 pages ; 25 cm
Note Includes index.
Summary "The Middle East is experiencing Post-Traumatic Shock-and-Awe Disorder, roiled by the unintended after-effects of the removal of a geopolitical cornerstone: Saddam Hussein's Sunni-dominated Iraq." "Four million Iraqis were displaced by the conflict; two million of them left the country. Iraq's demographic balance shifted and it became a Shiite-dominated state. Jordan's Sunnis found themselves isolated and without a strong regional ally, and Lebanon's Sunnis faced an internal challenge from Hezbollah's Shiites, emboldened by the new power shift in Iraq." "The rise of Iranian-backed Shiite parties and militias was predicted; the consequences of the Sunni eclipse almost entirely overlooked. Yet it is this newly displaced population that is likely to determine the future complexion of the region." "Deborah Amos is a distinguished and expert reporter. In Eclipse of the Sunnis she gives voice to the experience of exile and the ongoing trauma of the dispossessed and displaced. She shows how individual stories have combined to create a new political dynamic in the Middle East that, no matter that it is of our making, we have almost no idea how to manage or control."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject Sunnites -- Middle East -- Social conditions.
Sunnites.
Middle East.
Social conditions.
Sunnites -- Iraq -- Social conditions.
Iraq.
Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Refugees -- Middle East.
Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Social aspects.
Iraq War (2003-2011)
Social aspects.
Sunnites -- Relations -- Shīʻah.
Relations.
Shīʻah.
Shīʻah -- Relations -- Sunnites.
ISBN 9781586486495
1586486497