Ali Gheissari, Author, Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr, Author Oxford University Press $74 (214p) ISBN 978-0-19-518967-4
Few countries today appear so erratic and unknowable as Iran, where Islamist president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's increasingly militant pronouncements keep leaders awake at night from Washington to Paris. Despite President Bush's assertion that the...
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Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr, Author . Norton $25.95 (287p) ISBN 978-0-393-06211-3
One of the least remarked upon aspects of the war in Iraq, at least in the American press, has been how conflict and instability in that country have shaken the delicate balance of power between Sunni and Shia throughout the wider region. Nasr,...
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Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr, Author . Free Press $26 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4165-8968-6
Nasr (The Shia Revival
) offers a fresh look at the future of religious extremism in the Middle East, suggesting that “the great battle... for the soul of the region will be fought not over religion, but over business and capitalism.” He
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Vali Nasr. Doubleday, $28.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-385-53647-9
[D]irectionless” White House strategies jeopardize the nation’s credibility and interests, argues the author in this stinging critique of America’s Middle-East policy. Nasr (The Shia Revival), dean of the Johns Hopkins School of International...
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