Arash Azizi

The Shadow Commander

Soleimani, the US, and Iran's Global Ambitions

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Reveals the military mastermind who established Iran as a major power in the Middle East and the regional ambitions of the Islamic Republic today

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oneworld Publications
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 0861541170
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 126mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 271g
• ISBN-13: 9780861541171
• ISBN-10: 0861541170
• Artikelnr.: 61193282

Autorenporträt

Arash Azizi is a historian at New York University where he researches the transnational links that tied Iran and the Arab world during the Cold War. He has written for numerous publications, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Daily Beast, Toronto Star and Jacobin, and several of his book-length translations have appeared in Iran and elsewhere. He lives in New York City. @arash_tehran

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: #WorldWarIII

1 A Life on the Margins

2 A Young Man in the City

3 To Guard a Revolution

4 "A Gift from the Heavens"

5 War Makes Man

6 No Islamism in One Country

7 A Chalice Full of Poison

8 An "Unwritten Pact"

9 We Protect the Shrines

10 Busy in Beirut

11 Islamic Awakening, Sectarian Degeneration

12 Black Flags, White Flags



Epilogue: The Endgame

Timeline

Acknowledgments

A Note on Sources

Bibliography

Notes

Index

Rezensionen

'An important book about one of the Middle East's most charismatic and powerful men in recent years.'
Middle East Monitor