{"id":35,"date":"2017-01-18T19:19:12","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T19:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christopherdavidson.net\/BaseHub\/?page_id=35"},"modified":"2023-03-08T13:04:27","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T13:04:27","slug":"shadow-wars-the-secret-struggle-for-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/christopherdavidson.net\/BaseHub\/shadow-wars-the-secret-struggle-for-the-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Shadow Wars: The Secret Struggle for the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"F\"\"or more than a century successive US and UK governments have sought to thwart nationalist, socialist and pro-democracy movements in the Middle East. Through the Cold War, the \u2018War on Terror\u2019 and the present era defined by the Islamic State, the Western powers have repeatedly manipulated the region\u2019s most powerful actors to ensure the security of their own interests and, in doing so, have given rise to religious politics, sectarian war, bloody counter-revolutions and now one of the most brutal incarnations of Islamic extremism ever seen.<\/span><\/p>\n

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This is the utterly compelling, systematic dissection of Western interference in the Middle East. Christopher Davidson exposes the dark side of our foreign policy \u2013 dragging many disturbing facts out into the light for the first time. Provocative, alarming and unrelenting, Shadow Wars demands to be read \u2013 now.<\/p>\n

Publishers\u2019 websites:\u00a0Oneworld<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0Simon and Schuster<\/a><\/p>\n

Table of contents: available\u00a0here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Public lectures\/launches:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cambridge Literary Festival \u2013\u00a0Public lecture<\/a><\/p>\n

FT Weekend\u2019s Oxford Literary Festival \u2013\u00a0Public lecture<\/a><\/p>\n

Leiden University \u2013\u00a0Public lecture with audience Q&A on Shadow Wars\u00a0<\/a>(video available)<\/p>\n

Daoud Family Lecture, Albion College Michigan \u2013\u00a0Public lecture<\/a><\/p>\n

Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society \u2013\u00a0Public lecture<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0local media<\/a><\/p>\n

British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) \u2013\u00a0Public lecture<\/a><\/p>\n

Reviews and features:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Al-Akhbar \u2013\u00a0Review: Shadow Wars: a contemporary history of Western counter-revolutions\u00a0<\/a>(Arabic)<\/p>\n

Political Issues \u2013\u00a0Review: Shadow Wars<\/a>\u00a0(Arabic)<\/p>\n

Christian Science Monitor \u2013\u00a0Review: Shadow Wars exposes the underlying patterns behind Middle Eastern strife<\/a><\/p>\n

CHOICE Magazine (American Library Association) \u2013\u00a0Review: Shadow Wars<\/a><\/p>\n

Global Policy \u2013\u00a0Review: Shadow Wars: The Secret Struggle for the Middle East<\/a><\/p>\n

Palestine Chronicle \u2013\u00a0Review: Shadow Wars: The Secret Struggle for the Middle East<\/a><\/p>\n

The Libertarian Institute \u2013\u00a0Review: Shadow Wars is an explosive new history that documents the rise of ISIS<\/a><\/p>\n

Kirkus \u2013\u00a0Review: Shadow Wars<\/a><\/p>\n

Red Pepper Magazine \u2013\u00a0Review: Shadow Wars<\/a><\/p>\n

The New Arab \u2013\u00a0Shadow Wars: How global terror finance networks crushed the Arab Spring
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