Why They Don't Hate Us: Lifting the Veil on the Axis of Evil

Why They Don't Hate Us: Lifting the Veil on the Axis of Evil

by Mark LeVine
Why They Don't Hate Us: Lifting the Veil on the Axis of Evil

Why They Don't Hate Us: Lifting the Veil on the Axis of Evil

by Mark LeVine

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Overview

Is the Muslim world really a seething mass of anti-Western hatred, or is the true situation more complicated than that? In this important and ambitious new work, Mark Levine presents a vivid and compelling picture of the human face behind the veil of the ‘Axis of Evil’ and sets out an alternative roadmap for better relations between the West and the Muslim world. Going beyond the stereotypes and below the media radar, this book explains why, contrary to the popular perception, ‘they’ don’t hate ‘us’ – or at least, not yet.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781780744735
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Publication date: 10/01/2013
Sold by: SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format: eBook
Pages: 448
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Mark LeVine, of the University of California, Irvine, is a leading figure among the new generation of analysts of the modern Middle East and Islam, and a musician who has performed with artists like Mick Jagger. For the last six years he has lived and worked in the Middle East, dodging terrorist bombs, standing against bulldozers and sharing the lives of the people who form the subject of his work. Historical consultant for the Oscar-nominated and double Emmy award-winning Promises documentary, he has made numerous television and radio appearances and his work has been extensively quoted in leading newspapers such as the New York Times and the Washington Post.
Mark LeVine, of the University of California, Irvine, is a leading figure among the new generation of analysts of the modern Middle East and Islam, and a musician who has performed with artists like Mick Jagger. For the last six years he has lived and worked in the Middle East, dodging terrorist bombs, standing against bulldozers and sharing the lives of the people who form the subject of his work. Historical consultant for the Oscar-nominated and double Emmy award-winning Promises documentary, he has made numerous television and radio appearances and his work has been extensively quoted in leading newspapers such as the NY Times and the Washington Post.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations ix
Preface xi

Introduction: They Are Us 1

PART 1 WHO ARE THEY, WHERE’D THEY COME FROM, AND WHY THEY DON’T HATE US – YET? 15

1 From Evil to Empathy: The Orient Beats Back the Axis of Arrogance
2 Overcoming the Matrix, Re-Imagining Middle Eastern History

PART 2 BRANDING ISLAM IN THE GLOBAL ERA 81

3 Grounding the Globalization Concorde 83
4 New Logo: Rebranding the Middle East in the Global Era
5 Beyond Bin Ladin: Human Nationalisms versus Inhuman Globalization
6 Facing the Music: Rock and Resistance in the Middle East

PART 3 WE’RE JAMMIN’: GLOBAL SOLIDARITY IN THE POST-9/11 WORLD 211

7 Paris ’68—Baghdad ’04: The Evolution of a Movement of Movements
8 Inspiring the Impossible: The Global Peace and Justice Movement Between Old Problems and New Horizons 241
9 Conclusion: Chaos and Culture Jamming in the "New Middle East" 273

Notes 341
Bibliography 421
Index 431
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