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Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World
Simon & Schuster
July 2011
On Sale: July 19, 2011
320 pages
ISBN: 143910316X
EAN: 9781439103166
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
A decade after the 9/11 attacks, this groundbreaking book
takes readers deep into rebellions against both autocrats
and extremists that are redefining politics, culture, and
security threats across the Islamic world. The awakening
involves hundreds of millions of people. And the political
transformations— and tectonic changes—are only beginning. Robin Wright, an acclaimed foreign correspondent and
television commentator, has covered the region for four
decades. She witnessed the full cycle, from extremism’s
angry birth and globalization to the rise of new movements
transforming the last bloc of countries to hold out against
democracy. Now, in Rock the Casbah, she chronicles the new
order being shaped by youthinspired revolts toppling
leaders, clerics repudiating al Qaeda, playwrights and poets
crafting messages of a counter-jihad, comedians ridiculing
militancy, hip-hop rapping against guns and bombs, and women
mobilizing for their own rights. This new counter-jihad has many goals. For some, it’s about
reforming the faith. For others, it’s about reforming
political systems. For most, it’s about achieving basic
rights. The common denominator is the rejection of venomous
ideologies and suicide bombs, plane hijackings,
hostage-takings, and mass violence to achieve those ends. Wright captures a stunning moment in history, one of the
region’s four key junctures—along with Iran’s revolution,
Israel’s creation, and the Ottoman Empire’s collapse—in a
century. The notion of a clash of civilizations is
increasingly being replaced by a commonality of
civilizations in the twenty-first century. But she candidly
details both the possibilities and pitfalls ahead. The new
counter-jihad is imaginative and defiant, but Muslim
societies are also politically inexperienced and
economically challenged.
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