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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
In this urgently important, courageous polemic, Iraqui dissident Makiya challenges Arabs and pro-Arab intellectuals to end their collective silence on the represssion carried out against their own people by brutal thugs like Saddam Hussein. Makiya's Republic of Fear (1989), written under the pseudonym Samir al-Khalil, likened Saddam's totalitarianism to Stalin's Soviet Union and Hitler's Germany. Here Makiya, who is based in Cambridge, Mass., fleshes out those analogies, drawing on his return trip to Iraq in late 1991 to searingly portray ordinary Iraquis and Kuwaitis victimized by the Ba'th regime. He documents the Iraqi army's mass murder in 1988 of some 100,000 Kurdish civilians, a secret genocidal campaign launched by Saddam Hussein. Makiya calls attention to institutionalized cruelty throughout the Arab Middle East: torture in Syria, public beheadings and amputations in Saudi Arabia, Kuwaitis' murder of thousands of Palestinians. Attacking the anti-imperialist rhetoric of Edward Said and Noam Chomsky as simplistic, Mikaya views the Gulf crisis as symptomatic of an "Arab moral failure" and envisions an Iraq freed from Saddam Hussein's repressive dictatorship.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
Makiya, an Iraqi expatriate, has authored two other significant works under the pseudonym of Samir al-Khalil: Republic of Fear (LJ 4/1/89) and The Monument ( LJ 3/15/91). His premise here is that "the Gulf War... was in essence an Arab moral failure of historic proportions.... Something... has gone profoundly wrong in the Arab world; Saddam Hussein merely typified and acted it out." To illustrate his thesis, Makiya details the dramatic upsurge in deliberate cruelty in Iraq through the recounting of the personal tales of Iraqis who suffered subjugation under Hussein's rule. By evoking the horror of Arab brother humiliating and perpetrating cruel and heinous acts upon Arab brother (and sister, mother, father, son and daughter), the author hopes to compel all of humanity (and Arab intellectuals in particular) to break the silence that permits Hussein to continue his reign. For Middle Eastern collections in academic and large public libraries.
- David Snider, Casa Grande P.L., Ariz.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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In this urgently important, courageous polemic, Iraqui dissident Makiya challenges Arabs and pro-Arab intellectuals to end their collective silence on the represssion carried out against their own people by brutal thugs like Saddam Hussein. Makiya's Republic of Fear (1989), written under the pseudonym Samir al-Khalil, likened Saddam's totalitarianism to Stalin's Soviet Union and Hitler's Germany. Here Makiya, who is based in Cambridge, Mass., fleshes out those analogies, drawing on his return trip to Iraq in late 1991 to searingly portray ordinary Iraquis and Kuwaitis victimized by the Ba'th regime. He documents the Iraqi army's mass murder in 1988 of some 100,000 Kurdish civilians, a secret genocidal campaign launched by Saddam Hussein. Makiya calls attention to institutionalized cruelty throughout the Arab Middle East: torture in Syria, public beheadings and amputations in Saudi Arabia, Kuwaitis' murder of thousands of Palestinians. Attacking the anti-imperialist rhetoric of Edward Said and Noam Chomsky as simplistic, Mikaya views the Gulf crisis as symptomatic of an "Arab moral failure" and envisions an Iraq freed from Saddam Hussein's repressive dictatorship.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
Makiya, an Iraqi expatriate, has authored two other significant works under the pseudonym of Samir al-Khalil: Republic of Fear (LJ 4/1/89) and The Monument ( LJ 3/15/91). His premise here is that "the Gulf War... was in essence an Arab moral failure of historic proportions.... Something... has gone profoundly wrong in the Arab world; Saddam Hussein merely typified and acted it out." To illustrate his thesis, Makiya details the dramatic upsurge in deliberate cruelty in Iraq through the recounting of the personal tales of Iraqis who suffered subjugation under Hussein's rule. By evoking the horror of Arab brother humiliating and perpetrating cruel and heinous acts upon Arab brother (and sister, mother, father, son and daughter), the author hopes to compel all of humanity (and Arab intellectuals in particular) to break the silence that permits Hussein to continue his reign. For Middle Eastern collections in academic and large public libraries.
- David Snider, Casa Grande P.L., Ariz.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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