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Night of Power: The Betrayal of the Middle East Paperback – 3 July 2024
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'ROBERT FISK HAS BEEN REPORTING FROM THE MIDDLE EAST WITH INCOMPARABLE DEPTH AND UNDERSTANDING…AND EXTRAORDINARY COURAGE' NOAM CHOMSKY
In this final work from renowned journalist Robert Fisk, he picks up reporting on the Middle East where his internationally bestselling The Great War of Civilisation left off.
From the Arab uprisings and the Syrian civil war to Israel’s conflicts with Palestine and Lebanon, Fisk condemns the West’s ongoing hypocrisy and interference while revealing the horrific truth of life on the ground. Unafraid to criticise authority and unpick complex truths, hecreates a compelling narrative of passionate and engaging journalism, historical analysis and eyewitness reporting.
With a Postscript by Nelofer Pazira-Fisk and a foreword by Patrick Cockburn, Night of Power delivers an essential and prophetic account of the last twenty years, which exposes the inescapable consequences of colonial oppression and violence in the Middle East.
‘This is a masterly work by a unique and gifted “historian of the present”, who was unafraid to criticise authority while revealing the horrific realities of life and death on the ground’ Conor O’Clery, Irish Times
‘Every sentence of Robert Fisk radiates his loathe of wars and the inevitable dehumanization they produce, which makes his (sadly) last book an everlasting warning, beyond its value as a meticulous historical recount and analysis of today's events’ Amira Hass, journalist, Haaretz
'Fisk's reporting is clear-eyed and unflinching, a model for what journalists should aspire to practice in their ever more important and widely threatened craft' Anthony Arnove, editor, Iraq Under Siege and author, Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal
‘I was at the funeral of a friend of mine, in Kilternan cemetery … I came across Robert Fisk’s grave. Someone has to bear witness to the unspeakable, and he did it, whatever the cost to himself’ Neil Jordan, film director and writer
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In this final work from renowned journalist Robert Fisk, he picks up reporting on the Middle East where his internationally bestselling The Great War of Civilisation left off.
An extraordinary chronicle of Fisk's trademark rigorous journalism, historical analysis and eyewitness reporting. Fully immersed in the Middle East and critical of the West's ongoing interference, Fisk was committed to uncovering complex and uncomfortable truths that rarely featured on the traditional news agenda.
With a foreword from fellow Middle East correspondent and former colleague Patrick Cockburn, Night of Power delivers an essential and final account from one of the world's finest journalists, and proves itself timely as ever.
‘Every sentence of Robert Fisk radiates his loathe of wars and the inevitable dehumanization they produce, which makes his (sadly) last book an everlasting warning, beyond its value as a meticulous historical recount and analysis of today's events’ Amira Hass, journalist, Haaretz
'Fisk's reporting is clear-eyed and unflinching, a model for what journalists should aspire to practice in their ever more important and widely threatened craft' Anthony Arnove, editor, Iraq Under Siege and author, Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal
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Robert Fisk was an English writer and journalist. As Middle East correspondent of The Independent, he has primarily been based in Beirut for more than 30 years. He has published a number of books and has reported on the United States'war in Afghanistan and its 2003 invasion of Iraq. Fisk holds more British and International Journalism awards than any other foreign correspondent. The New York Times once described Robert Fisk as "probably the most famous foreign correspondent in Britain.
Fisk has said that journalism must "challenge authority, all authority, especially so when governments and politicians take us to war." He is a pacifist and has never voted.
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August 20, 2024
I've always admired the journalism of Robert Fisk. He provides a vivid, albeit depressing and horrifying, insight into the political and ideological ruthlessness that is the Middle East.
Throughout this book I felt that Fisk was searching for a silver lining to the very dark cloud that was his experience as a resident and journalist living in the region. After the decades of pointless suffering that Fisk witnessed, it became clear to Fisk that US and European foreign policy is not about making the world a better place. It is about power.
In this book he provides insights into the aftermath of the 2001 and 2003 Coalition invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan, Israel's conflicts with Lebanon (and Hezbollah and Iran), the so-called 'Arab Spring' in Egypt, Tunisia, and Bahrain, and the ongoing Syrian civil war. The book is dotted with gut-wrenching stories of suffering that is ignored in the West, and if not ignored, dismissed as bias or propaganda (friendly despots are strongmen, but unfriendly despots are tyrants, even though their policies of repression and torture feel the same to their people).
Fisk's insights reveal the hypocrisy of Amercian and European foreign policy and journalism. This book is a plea for an end to Western interference in the Middle East and is an account of human suffering due to the folly of war and propped-up dictators. It recognises that the media's inadequate and essentialised representation of the people in the Middle East is an extension of the same mindset that once drove and justified European colonisation in the region.
I often wonder to what extent reporting of the Middle East is sanitised. This book has given me a glimpse of the raw horror. The stories and experiences that Fisk describes cannot be shown on TV. I suspect that if they were, such images of torture, mass murder, and mutilation of children (imagine a boy, sitting in shock, who has had the lower half of his face blown off so only a jawless hole is left) would make the audiences of the US and Europe question the 'good' of their interventions in the Middle East.
I wanted to give this book 4 stars, but the lack of a clear link between all the chapters (other than the overall narrative of pain) meant that at times the book could be hard to track. Although that might be because Fisk died before finishing this book. That said, I recommend a read if you want a more down to earth (grim) understanding of post-2005 Middle Eastern politics.
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December 10, 2024
Highlights the West's duplicity, double standards, hypocrisy in its policies across the Middle East. I've always enjoyed Fisk's work. I will miss him.
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I first heard Robert Fisk on Late Night Live with Phillip Adams. He was one of the few western journalists who ‘got’ the Middle East. He spoke Arabic, lived in Lebanon and had a true and deep appreciation of the Middle East and its people. He was known for his three interviews of Osama Bin Laden. The weasel word 'controversial' was so often used to describe him. He preferred to report from the view of the victim rather than the perpetrator.
I read his brilliant tome, ‘The Great War for Civilisation’, such an impressive book. He quotes and writes about his father and his part in the mass slaughter known as World War 1.
I was deeply saddened when I heard of his death from a stroke in October 2020. Adams produced a special edition on LNL. Later I listened to an interview with Nelofer Pazira, his widow, and I knew I had to clear my reading agenda to make way for this near 700 page book. Night of Power is a painful and powerful read. Fisk takes the reader on a journey throughout the Middle East over the last four or more decades, up to his death. This book was completed by his wife. She used notes and written and recorded accounts that Fisk had accumulated over the years.
The central theme of the book is the role and influence that western nations have had on the area, the continued shallow and predictable reporting by much of the western media and finally, most, if not all of the local leaders are despotic and ruthless autocrats who will not hesitate in slaying their own people. Saddam, Khamenei, Qaddafi, al Assad, bin Salman, El Sisi.
Fisk spends many pages describing the role that Israel plays in attacking its neighbours and persecuting the Palestinians. I am sure that if he were alive to day that he would be horrified but not surprised by actions of the Jewish state. Nevertheless, he is most forthright in his criticisms of the actions of those Arab/Muslim elements who commit heinous crimes to innocent civilians.
Starting with the Balfour Declaration and the Sykes-Picot Agreement he plots the West’s role in creating the modern Middle East. Through the many Israel Arab conflicts, Saddams invasion of Kuwait, Osama Bin Laden, Bush’s Weapons of mass destruction invasion, the rise and fall of Al Queda and ISIS, through to the misnamed Arab Spring and its aftermath.
Fisk’s writings are based on historical knowledge, his personal experiences and his access to so many in the region. His personal take on so much of what has happened in this region, but at the core of his writing is a deep respect for the citizens and the suffering and loss many have endured.
This book demonstrates that Fisk was truly a master of the craft of journalism.
‘That is the best definition of journalism I have heard; to challenge authority – all authority – especially so when governments and politicians take us to war, when they have decided that they will kill and others will die.’
PS. As I read this book the sounds of war and suffering were being relentlessly broadcast over the evening news. So little has changed since Robert Fisk arrived in Beirut in 1976.
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March 14, 2026
4.5 starts. As a sort of beginner to west Asian studies, I found this (very long, extremely miserable) book an amazing introduction. But i think even if you know a lot about this area, you will find the insights in this book extremely interesting.
However I agree with other reviews, I wish the chapters linked a lot smoother. The chapters are separated sort of by country, and roughly by time, which is fine, but I wish there was a bit more exploration on how these events link and interacted with each other.
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I’ve just put down Night of Power, the Betrayal of the Middle East, the epic final volume by veteran Middle East reporter Robert Fisk. Largely completed before his death in October 2020, Fisk’s widow and fellow journalist, Nelofer Pazira-Fisk, saw the book through to publication in 2024. And we owe her a debt of gratitude.
The book provides a broad picture of the past 50 years of Western interference in the Middle East, and digs specifically into the past twenty years. Picking up where his last book, The Great War for Civilisation, ended, Night of Power is made up of contemporary accounts of the aftermath of the invasion of Iraq, the Arab Spring, war in Syria, Israel’s colonial expansionist projects, and the brutality of the region’s dictatorships. It is a necessary primer providing context and understanding to the period we are in, told not only from the lofty vantage point of rulers and war lords – but most importantly, he tells the stories of the perspective of the people who live – and die – in these wars.
What is unique about Fisk’s reporting is not only his ability to cut through the BS – he isn’t worried about crossing the official Western lines about conflict that we read about in most publications. Nor is he pre-occupied with toting anyone else’s ideological positionings. The first time I met Robert Fisk, in the early 2000s, at an event organized with Carleton University’s Middle East Discussion Group – a group I volunteered for as a student - he gave the example of his coverage of Bahrain that earned him a vilified cartoon in the country’s media… Every side, on the stories he covered in the Middle East, had a gripe with him because he toed no one’s line – and this he suggested, is what journalism is about – reporting on the facts on the ground as he knew them. I always felt I could trust Robert Fisk was doing his utmost best to do real journalism: to report on the facts, and to tell the stories of the people affected. Not to “balance a story” – what has become a trite he said/she said formula that I think has destroyed contemporary journalism (a discussion for another day).
This may be the most important book I’ve read in 2024, and deserves to be on your 2025 must reads, as in many ways it helps fill the void I’ve felt acutely since October 7 2023, in coverage and analysis of the Middle East.
I’ll give you an example: like so many of us, I’ve watched in dismay as Israel commits genocide in Gaza, throwing to wind international human rights law. Canada, largely following the lead of the US, ignores the very instruments it helped establish to ensure large-scale state-sponsored murder and war crimes never happen again. As Canadian John Humphrey, one of the drafters of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights wrote in 1949, and explained to me as a young journalist when I met him in the early 1990s “The experience of the second world war and the events which gave rise to it, as well as the history of the post-war years, have convinced the great majority of thinking men and women that persistent violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms in one part of the world jeopardize the rights of people in other countries and will inevitably result in a situation that will eventually threaten the peace of nations.” [1]
While these human rights instruments and their application have always been controversial, they continued to guide an understanding of human rights and dignity and drive international solidarity work.
However, what we’ve witnessed the past year and half has brought all of this history into question, it seems. Those who pay attention to Israel have seen how it regularly gets away with violating all tenants of human rights. Activists and academics, like Ilan Pappe, have warned of Israel’s ethnic cleansing for years, however no one I’ve spoken with anticipated the full on genocide we are witnessing, and the utter lack of willingness our government has to condemn it.
Yet Fisk reminds me of how quickly we forget history, as in his first pages, he addresses the erosion of international human rights instruments...
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I don't like to use this word because it usually isn't true, but this book is ESSENTIAL reading for anyone who wants to understand the modern Middle East. Fisk died in 2020 and his writings were uncannily prescient. His death was a huge blow to truth-telling which is already an endangered species.
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The irony of naming this book after the holiest night in the Islamic calendar, Laylat ul-Qadr, then proceeding to defile almost every page with derogatory references to “Islamists,” a propaganda term concocted by the Western Empire to discredit the Arab desire to form Islamic governments to resolutely counter Western interference à la Iran, a republic which Fisk can’t help but scorn at any given opportunity.
There isn’t a lot of great reporting here. Instead the pages are full of surface-level, extremely biased accounts of the so-called “Arab Spring” uprisings. It’s disappointing because “The Great War for Civilisation” was a profound read. I expected more from the sequel to Fisk’s masterpiece.
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3,5 stars; this one had to grow on me, I really got into it when Fisk related his encounters with Osama Bin Laden; that felt really unique and insightful; this book is a nice companion piece to works about the Israel-Palestinian conflict in particular and in addition gives lots of background info on the broader situation and history of the Middle-East; excellent listen on Audible.
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روبرت فيسك، الصحفي المخضرم غني عن التعريف. توفى منذ عدة سنوات وصدر آخر كتاب له مؤخرا بعنوان ليلة القدر. يحكي في هذا الكتاب تفاصيل عمله كمراسل صحفي في المنطقة العربية خلال العشرين عاما الماضية. أنصح بقراءته.
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Incredible book to cap off Fisk's lifetime of work. I miss being able to read his take on the latest in the Middle East, but he's left us a lot of material to use as a lens for whatever is to come in the future.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Love hurts
Reviewed in Australia on 11 October 2025
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As humans we only hurt because we love, our families, our homes our nations. This book is about a world of hurt that cannot be understood by a westerner such as myself, about people decimated by war. Tribalism, religion, despotic power and complete disregard for our fellow man are features of the Middle East and the meddling disinterested impotent west. Don't read this unless you have a strong constitution and a good heart. If you are already a hater, leave it alone, it will do you no good.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A must read for our times
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I’ve just put down Night of Power, the Betrayal of the Middle East, the epic final volume by veteran Middle East reporter Robert Fisk. Largely completed before his death in October 2020, Fisk’s widow and fellow journalist, Nelofer Pazira-Fisk, saw the book through to publication in 2024. And we owe her a debt of gratitude.
The book provides a broad picture of the past 50 years of Western interference in the Middle East, and digs specifically into the past twenty years. Picking up where his last book, The Great War for Civilisation, ended, Night of Power is made up of contemporary accounts of the aftermath of the invasion of Iraq, the Arab Spring, war in Syria, Israel’s colonial expansionist projects, and the brutality of the region’s dictatorships. It is a necessary primer providing context and understanding to the period we are in, told not only from the lofty vantage point of rulers and war lords – but most importantly, he tells the stories of the perspective of the people who live – and die – in these wars.
What is unique about Fisk’s reporting is not only his ability to cut through the BS – he isn’t worried about crossing the official Western lines about conflict that we read about in most publications. Nor is he pre-occupied with toting anyone else’s ideological positionings. The first time I met Robert Fisk, in the early 2000s, at an event organized with Carleton University’s Middle East Discussion Group – a group I volunteered for as a student - he gave the example of his coverage of Bahrain that earned him a vilified cartoon in the country’s media… Every side, on the stories he covered in the Middle East, had a gripe with him because he toed no one’s line – and this he suggested, is what journalism is about – reporting on the facts on the ground as he knew them. I always felt I could trust Robert Fisk was doing his utmost best to do real journalism: to report on the facts, and to tell the stories of the people affected. Not to “balance a story” – what has become a trite he said/she said formula that I think has destroyed contemporary journalism (a discussion for another day).
This may be the most important book I’ve read in 2024, and deserves to be on your 2025 must reads, as in many ways it helps fill the void I’ve felt acutely since October 7 2023, in coverage and analysis of the Middle East.
I’ll give you an example: like so many of us, I’ve watched in dismay as Israel commits genocide in Gaza, throwing to wind international human rights law. Canada, largely following the lead of the US, ignores the very instruments it helped establish to ensure large-scale state-sponsored murder and war crimes never happen again. As Canadian John Humphrey, one of the drafters of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights wrote in 1949, and explained to me as a young journalist when I met him in the early 1990s “The experience of the second world war and the events which gave rise to it, as well as the history of the post-war years, have convinced the great majority of thinking men and women that persistent violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms in one part of the world jeopardize the rights of people in other countries and will inevitably result in a situation that will eventually threaten the peace of nations.” [1]
While these human rights instruments and their application have always been controversial, they continued to guide an understanding of human rights and dignity and drive international solidarity work.
However, what we’ve witnessed the past year and half has brought all of this history into question, it seems. Those who pay attention to Israel have seen how it regularly gets away with violating all tenants of human rights. Activists and academics, like Ilan Pappe, have warned of Israel’s ethnic cleansing for years, however no one I’ve spoken with anticipated the full on genocide we are witnessing, and the utter lack of willingness our government has to condemn it.
Yet Fisk reminds me of how quickly we forget history, as in his first pages, he addresses the erosion of international human rights instruments:
“…the Israelis attacked bridges and motorways and power stations and entire villages and mobile phone transmitters and Red Cross offices and ambulances, just as they later attacked roads and medical centres and UN facilities in Gaza. Once the precedent had been set, this new atrocity became a start-line for the next killings.”
This was in 2006! Fisk goes on to write:
“The fact that the Geneva Conventions specifically forbid the kind of attacks which the Americans and British and Israelis launched meant nothing. Were we not all engaged in a new form of conflict against 'world terror'? And if the Americans could bomb a hospital in Serbia or a civilian housing estate in Baghdad, who were the hypocritical West to object when the Israeli army slaughtered the innocents of Lebanon and Gaza in identical ways?”
While the ongoing genocide in Gaza may not have been predicted, the foundations for it have been clear. And more, Fisk reminds us that alignments of international powers and proxies in the Middle East over oil, water and resources, and shipping ways trump everything else. Outrage at the lack of response by governments and media is nothing new.
Fisk continues, “This, then, is another theme of this book; the 'normalisation' of this latest warfare, which deletes the protection of civilians enshrined in international law in favour of a new and cruel morality: 11 September 2001 really did change the world forever, and the new world that emerged made the traditional laws of war as outdated as they were irrelevant.”
In a recent review in The New York Times reporter Robert F. Worth asks “It isn’t clear what Fisk thought his reporting would achieve. Much of what he has to say — about Iraq especially — is now grindingly familiar to an audience that has grown numb after a quarter-century of lurid Middle Eastern violence.”[2]
That Worth cannot understand the point of Fisk’s journalism speaks volumes to what is wrong with journalism. Worth cannot understand, it seems, why the stories of the people who are really at the heart of it all are important to know – the shop-keepers, drivers, commuters, mothers, fathers, children, grandparents, maimed, tortured and murdered by state and non state actors; by dictators too often supported by our own governments, armed with US made weapons.
The purpose of Fisk’s work seems clear to me in this example, from one of his missives from Iraq:
“I watch as they pull corpses from the rubble of the Zeir family home while hundreds of angry men scream at American troops to let them rescue the wounded. The children's bodies are more or less intact; the adults come out in parts. The Zeirs - a Christian family, for this street of the city is a small Christian enclave - were all watching a football match on television, but they were also receiving visitors to one of their female relatives who was ill. Officers of the new Iraqi police force, fire brigade personnel and even some of the wounded are clawing with their hands at the bricks and muck in an effort to find survivors. The suicide bombing will be claimed later, by al-Qaeda… The US authorities announced that American citizens had been wounded in the bombing, a statement that only further enraged the men trying to reach their loved ones. 'We are suffering and they don't care,' a woman in a black abaya gown screams at me. 'Why is it only you people who are so precious? It is us who are dying’.”
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5.0 out of 5 stars Simply Essential Reading
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 December 2025
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I you want to find some history of conflicts in the middle east this is simply essential reading. It gives so much context to the continuing conflicts it is absolutely indispensable.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The greatest foreign journalist of his generation
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Brilliant as usual. Journalism and history nourish each other with their depth and meaning.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Who will carry the torch?
Reviewed in the United States on 28 July 2025
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Another excellent work from Fisk. Top notch reporting. I am so sad he is no longer around and immensely grateful for all he did and risked.
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D.Sheppard
5.0 out of 5 stars A fitting end
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 November 2025
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A posthumous classic
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Shak
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant!
Reviewed in the United States on 31 July 2024
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Continues where he left off in the Great War for Civilization. Eloquently written, it reads like a great Tolstoy tragedy. Last work of the probably the greatest investigative journalist of the 20th--and perhaps 21st--century.
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4.0 out of 5 stars The truth
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 October 2024
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It’s the truth, according to Robert Fisk and I , for one, believe him.
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Ziad Suidan
3.0 out of 5 stars slightly disappointed
Reviewed in the United States on 13 September 2024
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When I heard that a posthumous work of Fisk’s was coming out, I, like most of his devoted readers went out and got it. Upon getting to the postscript I saw two things that utterly did not fit the work when reading Syria or Egypt or hearing about the attack on Russia. The latter was not at issue in any chapter except as a passing thought making this work end on a blame Russia card when it is the U.S. led NATO alliance that brought on the savagery of both parties. As to the former, Robert Fisk entirely leaves out US and European culpability in the latest hungering after Sisi; as to Syria, Fisk’s work obviates the fact that economically sanctioning and suffocating Syria as the U.S. and Europe do has led to much of the intensifying splitting in the country. But throughout this work, Fisk inserts preposterous remarks: the savagery of Saddam is worse than U.S. occupation which makes Saddam’s, the US’s man until 1990, a forgotten fact. He also claims Gaza to be an utter backwater without stating why anyone would want to fight for it. In this day and age, that is being disproven. While his wife makes colonialism front and center in reporting and governance over the middle-east it is sidelined in the chapters that preceded the post-script.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating !!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 September 2024
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Have always enjoyed the authors 'take' on Middle East politics and this final example is no exception. There are times when I disagree with his conclusions but it is always a thrill to engage and feel part of the debate. RIP sir !!
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