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Cruelty and Silence: War, Tyranny, Uprising, and the Arab World
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Cruelty and Silence: War, Tyranny, Uprising, and the Arab World Paperback - 1994

by Kanan Makiya

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Hailed as one of the most important books ever written on the state of the modern Middle East, this brave and controversial work confronts the rhetoric ofArab and pro-Arab intellectuals with the realities of political brutality in the Arab world.

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Makiya first gives us the stories of Khalil, Abu Haydar, Omar, Mustafa, and Taimour--the Arab and Kurdish heroes of this book. Their testimony, revealing the true extent of occupation, prejudice, revolution, and routinized violence, is a compelling example of the literature of witness. He then links these tales of survival to an examination of the Arab intelligentsia's response to Saddam Hussein and the Gulf War, comparing the flood of condemnation of the West with the trickle of protest over Saddam's mass murder campaign against the Kurds In his exploration of these "landscapes of cruelty and silence," Kanan Makiya lays out the nationalist mythologies that underlie them. He calls for a new politics in the Arab world--a politics that puts absolute respect for human life above all else.

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KHALIL, a Kuwaiti in his early thirties, discovered these words on one of the walls of the living-room annex in what used to be his luxurious family home.

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  • Title Cruelty and Silence: War, Tyranny, Uprising, and the Arab World
  • Author Kanan Makiya
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, New York, NY, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1994-04-01
  • ISBN 9780393311419 / 0393311414
  • Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.1 x 5.5 x 1 in (20.57 x 13.97 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
  • Category Politics / Current Events
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 00000000
  • Dewey Decimal Code 956.704
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