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  • The Burning Shores

    Inside the Battle for the New Libya

    by Frederic Wehrey ...
    A riveting, beautifully crafted account of Libya after Qadhafi's tyrannical reign.The death of Colonel Muammar Qadhafi freed Libya from forty-two years of despotic rule, raising hopes for a new era. But in the aftermath, the country descended into bitter rivalries and civil war, paving the way for the Islamic State and a catastrophic migrant crisis.In a fast-paced narrative that blends frontline ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Salafism in the Maghreb

    Politics, Piety, and Militancy

    by Frederic Wehrey, Anouar Boukhars ...
    Series series Carnegie Endowment for Intl Peace
    The Arab Maghreb-the long stretch of North Africa that expands from Libya to Mauritania-is a vitally important region that impacts the security and politics of Europe, sub-Saharan Africa, and the broader Middle East. As Middle East scholars Frederic Wehrey and Anouar Boukhars show in Salafism in the Maghreb, it is also home to the conservative, literalist interpretation of Islam known as Salafism, ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Perilous Desert

    Insecurity in the Sahara

    Edited by Frederic Wehrey, Anouar Boukhars ...
    The geopolitical significance of the Sahara is becoming painfully clear. Islamist militant groups and transnational criminal networks are operating in the region's most fragile states, exploiting widespread corruption, weak government capacity, crushing poverty, and entrenched social and ethnic tensions. The unrest spills over borders and aggravates protracted regional crises.This insecurity ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Sectarian Politics in the Gulf

    From the Iraq War to the Arab Uprisings

    by Frederic Wehrey ...
    Series series Columbia Studies in Middle East Politics
    One of Foreign Policy's Best Five Books of 2013, chosen by Marc Lynch of The Middle East ChannelBeginning with the 2003 invasion of Iraq and concluding with the aftermath of the 2011 Arab uprisings, Frederic M. Wehrey investigates the roots of the Shi'a-Sunni divide now dominating the Persian Gulf's political landscape. Focusing on three Gulf states affected most by sectarian tensions—Bahrain, ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Beyond Sunni and Shia

    The Roots of Sectarianism in a Changing Middle East

    Edited by Frederic Wehrey ...
    This collection seeks to advance our understanding of intra-Islamic identity conflict during a period of upheaval in the Middle East. Instead of treating distinctions between and within Sunni and Shia Islam as primordial and immutable, it examines how political economy, geopolitics, domestic governance, social media, non- and sub-state groups, and clerical elites have affected the transformation ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

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    The Burning Shores

    Inside the Battle for the New Libya

    by Frederic Wehrey ...
    Narrated by Paul Boehmer ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 56 min

    The death of Colonel Muammar Qadhafi freed Libya from forty-two years of despotic rule, raising hopes for a new era. But in the aftermath, the country descended into bitter rivalries and civil war, paving the way for the Islamic State and a catastrophic migrant crisis.In a fast-paced narrative that blends frontline reporting, analysis, and history, Frederic Wehrey tells the story of what went ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Assad or We Burn the Country

    How One Family's Lust for Power Destroyed Syria

    by Sam Dagher ...
    Narrated by Gary Tiedemann ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 52 min

    From a Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist specializing in the Middle East, this groundbreaking account of the Syrian Civil War reveals the never-before-published true story of a 21st-century humanitarian disaster.In spring 2011, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad turned to his friend and army commander, Manaf Tlass, for advice about how to respond to Arab Spring-inspired protests. Tlass pushed for ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Islamic Exceptionalism

    How the Struggle Over Islam Is Reshaping the World

    by Shadi Hamid ...
    In Islamic Exceptionalism, Brookings Institution scholar and acclaimed author Shadi Hamid offers a novel and provocative argument on how Islam is, in fact, "exceptional" in how it relates to politics, with profound implications for how we understand the future of the Middle East. Divides among citizens aren't just about power but are products of fundamental disagreements over the very nature and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Rethinking Political Islam

    Edited by Shadi Hamid, William McCants ...
    For years, scholars hypothesized about what Islamists might do if they ever came to power. Now, they have answers: confusing ones. In the Levant, ISIS established a government by brute force, implementing an extreme interpretation of Islamic law. On the opposite end of the spectrum, Tunisia's Ennahda Party governed in coalition with two secular parties, ratified a liberal constitution, and ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • The Islamist Phoenix

    The Islamic State (ISIS) and the Redrawing of the Middle East

    by Loretta Napoleoni ...
    An updated edition of The Islamist Phoenix is now available as ISIS: The Terror Nation (978-1-60980-725-2)From its birth in the late 1990s as the jihadist dream of terrorist leader Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the Islamic State (known by a variety of names, including ISIS, ISIL, and al Qaeda in Iraq) has grown into a massive enterprise, redrawing national borders across the Middle East and subjecting an ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Destroying a Nation

    The Civil War in Syria

    by Nikolaos Van Dam ...
    Following the Arab Spring, Syria descended into civil and sectarian conflict. It has since become a fractured warzone which operates as a breeding ground for new terrorist movements including ISIS as well as the root cause of the greatest refugee crisis in modern history. In this important book, former Special Envoy of the Netherlands to Syria, Nikolaos van Dam, explains the recent history of ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Sunnis and Shi'a

    A Political History

    by Laurence Louër ...
    Translated by Ethan Rundell ...
    A compelling history of the ancient schism that continues to divide the Islamic worldWhen Muhammad died in 632 without a male heir, Sunnis contended that the choice of a successor should fall to his closest companions, but Shi'a believed that God had inspired the Prophet to appoint his cousin and son-in-law, Ali, as leader. So began a schism that is nearly as old as Islam itself. Laurence Louër ... Read more

    $17.99 USD