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The Arab world and Western intelligence : analysing the Middle East, 1956-1981 / Dina Rezk.
LIBRA DS63.1 .R49 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rezk, Dina, author.
- Series:
- Intelligence, surveillance and secret warfare
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- International relations.
- Intelligence service.
- Politics and government.
- History.
- Middle East--History--20th century.
- Middle East.
- Middle East--Politics and government--History--20th century.
- Intelligence service--Western countries.
- Middle East--Foreign relations--Western countries.
- Western countries--Foreign relations--Middle East.
- Western countries.
- Diplomatic relations.
- Physical Description:
- 361 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- Have Western experts fundamentally failed to understand the dynamics, leaders and culture of the Middle East? Dina Rezk analyses 8 case studies, culminating in the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar el Sadat on live television on 6 October 1981. Drawing on declassified documents, interviews and multi-archival research, she explores how the most powerful intelligence agencies in the world have been so notoriously caught off guard in post-WWII Middle East.
- Contents:
- 1 Orientalism and Analysis: Ideas of the 'Arab' 25
- 2 Formation of the United Arab Republic 57
- 3 Revolution in Iraq 79
- 4 Syrian Secession 116
- 5 Civil War in Yemen 137
- 6 Six-Day War 175
- 7 War of Attrition 200
- 8 Early Years of Sadat's Presidency 227
- 9 Yom Kippur War 249
- 10 Aftermath of Victory 284.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 338-347) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780748698912
- 0748698914
- OCLC:
- 999801965
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