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Power, Exile, and Upheaval in the Middle East
PublicAffairs
March 2010
On Sale: March 9, 2010
256 pages
ISBN: 1586486497
EAN: 9781586486495
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Hundreds of thousands of Sunni Muslims displaced or exiled
by the conflict in Iraq have spread across the Middle East,
unbalancing that sensitive region. From Amman to Beirut and
Damascus, Deborah Amos follows the impact of one of the
great migrations of modern times.
The history of the Middle East tells us that one of the
greatest problems of the last forty years has been that of
a displaced population, angered by their inability to
safely return home and resume ownership of their property—
as they see it. Now, the pattern has been repeated. A new
population of exiles, as large as the Palestinians, has
been created. This particular displacement stirs up the historic conflict
between Sunni and Shia. More significant even than the
creation of colonial nation states a century ago, the
alienation of the Sunni middle class has the capacity to
cause resounding resentments across the region for
generations to come.
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