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Robin Wright has reported from more than 120 countries as a correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, CBS News, The Sunday Times (London), and the Christian Science Monitor: She was a fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Yale University, Duke University, and vis mere Stanford University's Hoover Institute. She won the National Magazine Award for her reporting on Iran for The New Yorker and was the recipient of an Overseas Press Club Award for best reporting requiring exceptional courage and initiative. vis mindre

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Fødselsdato
1948-08-27
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female
Nationalitet
USA
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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Washington, DC, USA
Uddannelse
University of Michigan
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journalist
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Although this book has been illuminating about nascent dissident movements and figures in the Islamic world. I think it is full of wishful thinking and over-interpretation of some positive anti-extremism trends.

The author tries to build a case that modern Muslims are increasingly going against extremism and tries to point out signs of this. She is simply over optimistic. As the saying goes "one swallow does not make a spring", and the proverbial Arab Spring was this little sad swallow coming before its time.

The Author spoke at length about Iran, Egypt, Iraq, and Yemen and even mentioned some "developments" in Afghanistan. Conspicuously absent from this book, however is any attempt to look at Syria. It was mentioned in one sentence in passing. Perhaps because the unfolding events there demonstrate the exact opposite of what she was trying to prove. The autocratic regimes winning the day through the alarming rise of extremist ideology.

The book taught me a few things about isolated and small movements against the tide of Islamism. At some other time this could have been enough to reassure a less engaged western mind. But it is much less convincing for someone who lived in the Islamic world or even for someone enlightened enough and living in this turbulent age. We need a lot more than a sprinkling of dissents to make extremism decline for good.


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moukayedr | 7 andre anmeldelser | Sep 5, 2021 |
Robin Wright is an excellent author, knowledgeable of the history and people of the Middle East, and it's a pleasure to read her analysis of the affairs of that region. This book, Dreams and Shadows, while becoming outdated since it was written prior to the "Arab Spring", still offers interesting insights into the turmoil in the Middle East at that time.

The author gives the reader insights into the history, the leaders, and key events which shape the countries in the region, specifically the Palestinian Territories, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Morocco and Turkey. My interest in reading the book, six years after being written and several years after the Arab Spring, was to see what changes may be observed in those. Sadly, the hope and change of the area is still something for the future. Egypt has seen one ex-military strongman go, and another come. The Palestinian Territories continue to be squeezed and continue the fight for a homeland for the displaced Palestinians, Syria is in turmoil worse than before, Iraq remains in a post-war mess, Iran's struggles continue, etc. While the author noted that the region, in 2006, was ready for and in need of change, change for the better still seems far off into the future.… (mere)
 
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rsutto22 | 1 anden anmeldelse | Jul 15, 2021 |
Not very often do you get read history in the making. Wright's work is a firsthand look into the Arab Spring of 2011. Wright goes beneath the surface to understand the motivations of the populace. A large part of the nonviolent uprising has to do with changing the narrative of the Islamic faith from religious fanatics and battling peacefully against propped up autocrats, but internal jihad, day-to-day struggles is also fueling this nonviolent uprising. Human rights--civil rights, women's rights, and gay rights--come against fighting conservative religious fanatics and corrupt despots, while managing to maintain a balance of peaceful, respectful, religious principles in a globalized world. The United States, and the rest of the West, has for once come up with a consistent foreign policy and stick to it. Can't preach democracy one minute, and in the same breath, aid and abet dictators and think no one in the world is going to find out, connect all the dots, and post them on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter.
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nfulks32 | 7 andre anmeldelser | Jul 17, 2020 |
A fascinating snapshot of what is happening now in the Middle East. Highly recommended.
 
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GaylaBassham | 7 andre anmeldelser | May 27, 2018 |

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