After the Arab Spring: How Islamists Hijacked The Middle East Revolts - Hardcover

Bradley, John R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0230338194 ISBN 13: 9780230338197

Publisher: St. Martin's Press, 2012

Synopsis

PRAISE FOR JOHN R. BRADLEY

"After the Arab Spring is indispensable to understanding why the Middle East uprisings aren't going where we want. Bradley has a better pulse on the reality than anyone."--ROBERT BAER, former CIA operative and inspiration for the movie SYRIANA

'The situation [in the Middle East] has developed almost exactly along the lines that John R. Bradley predicted."--The Spectator (U.K.)

"Bradley says Western journalists mocked him when he predicted a revolution in Egypt. In his famous book Inside Egypt: The Land of the Pharaohs on the Brink of a Revolution (2008), he predicted the outbreak of a popular revolt against the Mubarak regime (which banned the book). After the uprising Bradley was transformed into a star overnight, because of his book's accurate prediction; and he is hunted by the print media, satellite channels and international television stations."--Asharq Al-Awsat, the leading pan-Arab daily newspaper

"What distinguishes [Bradley] from many other Western commentators is that he has gone native in the Arab world, living among Arab people and immersing himself in Arab culture. What also makes him stand out is the way he writes with a manifest determination to make a difference."--The New Statesman (U.K.)

"[Bradley] uses a graceful journalist's pen to write with scholarly authority [and] shows a sensitivity rare for a Westerner, reaching directly to the society's core."--The Nation

  "Back in 2008, John R. Bradley was dubbed an alarmist for uniquely -- yet at the same time accurately -- predicting an Egyptian uprising. But he was right, and his publications were banned by Hosni Mubarak's regime. In his new book, After the Arab Spring, his message is a simple one: everything we've been told about the Arab spring is wrong. In his view, political Islam has hijacked the revolutions across the Middle East."--Sir David Frost, on Al-Jazeera English  

"John R. Bradley, author of After the Arab Spring, was one of the few journalists who sang out of tune to the chorus of Arab Spring enthusiasts, pointing out that the failure of the democratic transition in Tunisia, the most progressive Arab country, portended failure when it came to the possibility of success in other countries. The Islamists were poised to mobolise for the elections. They have indeed hijacked the revolutions." --Tomás Alcoverro, La Vanguardia (Spain)

About this title

About the Author:

JOHN R. BRADLEY (johnrbradley.wordpress.com) was born in England and was educated at University College London, Dartmouth College in the United States, and Exeter College, Oxford. He is the author of four non-fiction books on the contemporary Arab world published by Palgrave Macmillan that draw heavily on his personal experience: Saudi Arabia Exposed: Inside a Kingdom in Crisis (2005); Inside Egypt: The Land of the Pharaohs on the Brink of a Revolution (2008; updated edition 2012); Behind the Veil of Vice: The Business and Culture of Sex in the Middle East (2010); and After the Arab Spring: How Islamists Hijacked the Middle East Revolts (2012). Bradley has been covering the Middle East for almost two decades. He has written essays, dispatches, reviews, and op-eds for numerous publications, including: The Washington Quarterly, The New Republic, The Times Literary Supplement, The Spectator, Salon, The London Telegraph, The Forward, The London Evening Standard, The New York Post, The London Sunday Times, Foreign Affairs, The Financial Times, The Daily Mail, The Independent, The Jewish Chronicle, The Washington Times, Newsweek, Asia Times, Prospect, and The Economist. He has been interviewed about the Middle East by CNN, the BBC, PBS, NPR, CBS, Fox News, Al-Jazeera English, Sky News, Russia Today, Channel 4 News, Bloomberg TV, and many other media outlets. Bradley's public lectures have most recently taken place at The Pacific Council for International Affairs in Los Angeles, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, London's Intelligence Squared, and The Athenaeum in Claremont, California.

Review:

"Back in 2008, John R. Bradley was dubbed an alarmist for uniquely -- yet at the same time accurately -- predicting an Egyptian uprising. But he was right, and his publications were banned by Hosni Mubarak's regime. In his new book, After the Arab Spring, his message is a simple one: everything we've been told about the Arab spring is wrong. In his view, political Islam has hijacked the revolutions across the Middle East."-Sir David Frost, on Al-Jazeera English

"A significant strength of Bradley's analysis is his methodological strategy, drawing from sources as diverse as interview transcripts, public speeches, websites, personal correspondence, TV shows, magazines, newspaper articles, and interviews. This book manages to produce a bitter yet accurate picture of the Arab world post-2011. Future writing on the topic of inter- national conflict, foreign policy, and democratization would do well to incorporate the warnings and arguments of this book."--International Journal of Development and Conflict

About this edition

• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0230338194
• ISBN 13: 9780230338197
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256