Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East - Hardcover

Wright, Robin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1594201110 ISBN 13: 9781594201110

Publisher: Penguin Press, 2008

Synopsis

A field report by a renowned regional specialist documents the major crises that have overshadowed the Middle East throughout the past thirty years, offering insight into the decisive events that are unfolding in today's world. 50,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Robin Wright covers U.S. foreign policy for The Washington Post. She has reported from more than 140 countries on six continents as a foreign correspondent. Her articles have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, and The International Herald-Tribune. The recipient of many awards from international journalism, diplomacy, and political organizations and a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Grant, Wright is the author of several books on the Middle East, including, most recently, The Last Great Revolution: Turmoil and Transformation in Iran. She has been a visiting fellow at Yale, Stanford, and Duke, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and the Brookings Institution's Saban Center.

From AudioFile:

Journalist Robin Wright has witnessed and reported on thirty years of Middle East politics and events. Her knowledge and personal contacts are woven into a substantial text that does not translate easily into an audio experience. Narrator Laural Merlington keeps her reading carefully neutral and changes her delivery style to distinguish dialogue from narrative. But Merlington's delivery doesn't quite match Wright's scholarly tone or savvy political analysis. Wright is sending a clear message about the United States' current occupation of Iraq, but Merlington doesn't deliver the message with the same force. Furthermore, the number of countries covered and sources quoted requires access to a map and to the extensive footnotes in order to make sense of the political picture Wright describes. R.F. © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1594201110
• ISBN 13: 9781594201110
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 464