The Syrian Rebellion (Inbunden)
avFouad Ajami, Ajami Fouad
ISBN: 9780817915049 - UTGIVEN: 201205In "The Syrian Rebellion," Fouad Ajami offers a detailed historical perspective on the current rebellion in Syria. Focusing on the similarities and the differences in skills between former dictator Hafez al-Assad and his successor son, Bashar, Ajami explains how an irresistible force clashed with an[...]
The Arab Predicament (Pocket)
avFouad Ajami
ISBN: 9780521438339 - UTGIVEN: 1992-09How have Arab political ideas and institutions evolved since the 1967 War? How have the Arabs contended with the external influences to which their wealth has exposed them? What are the implications of the rise of Islamic fundamentalism? Fouad Ajami seeks to answer these and related questions in his[...]
The Struggle for Mastery in the Fertile Crescent (Pocket)
avFouad Ajami
ISBN: 9780817917555 - UTGIVEN: 2014-07Fouad Ajami analyses the struggle for influence along the Fertile Crescent--the stretch of land that runs from Iran's border with Iraq to the Mediterranean--among three of the regional powers that have stepped into the vacuum left by the West: Iran, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia. He explains that, of th[...]
The Ideological Struggle for Pakistan (Pocket)
avZiad Haider, Fouad (FRW) Ajami, Ziad Haider
ISBN: 9780817910853 - UTGIVEN: 2010-04This assessment of the struggle for Pakistan's identity, from its birth in 1947 to the present day, provides a political and cultural understanding of the role and use of Islam in its evolution. The author, a Pakistani scholar, shows how Pakistan's viability as a state depends in large part on its a[...]
