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£9.99
Published
27 June 2017
Paperback Original
9781910400555
Ebook
9781910400562
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By Michael Luders:

 

An elegant but devastating account of Western interference in the Middle East, from the fall of Mossadegh in Iran in 1953 to the rise of Islamic State.

They that sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind.

With clarity and wit, Michael Luders tells the story of Western interference in the Middle East since the colonial era, and explains how it has given birth to the current political situation. His book reads like a political thriller – yet, tragically, it’s all true.

Stories change according to where they begin. And we tend to forget what doesn’t suit our sense of ourselves. Iran’s fraught relationship with the West can only be understood through the lens of the CIA- and MI6-sponsored overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, in 1953. Without the 2003 Iraq War and the West’s policy towards Assad in Syria, there would be no ’Islamic State’.

BLOWBACK is an essential read for anyone who wants to understand a region that remains at the heart of today’s violent and disordered world.

Old Street Publishing Blowback: Six Decades of Western Interference in the Middle East

An elegant but devastating account of Western interference in the Middle East, from the fall of Mossadegh in Iran in 1953 to the rise of Islamic State.

They that sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind.

With clarity and wit, Michael Luders tells the story of Western interference in the Middle East since the colonial era, and explains how it has given birth to the current political situation. His book reads like a political thriller – yet, tragically, it’s all true.

Stories change according to where they begin. And we tend to forget what doesn’t suit our sense of ourselves. Iran’s fraught relationship with the West can only be understood through the lens of the CIA- and MI6-sponsored overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, in 1953. Without the 2003 Iraq War and the West’s policy towards Assad in Syria, there would be no ’Islamic State’.

BLOWBACK is an essential read for anyone who wants to understand a region that remains at the heart of today’s violent and disordered world.

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'A black book of western policy in the Middle East that reads like a thriller'
—Neues Deutschland

 
 
  • 'Lüders offers a new perspective on a complex situation. Anyone who wants to understand the conflicts in the Middle East should read this book’
    —Die Glocke
  • ‘With a meticulous precision … Lüders sets out which Western interventions have caused which eruptions of blood-filled chaos in the arab-islamic world… He makes the pattern of western behaviour and the region’s often bewildering history astonishingly clear’
    —Stuttgarter Zeitung
 
 
Michael Luders

Michael Luders is a journalist and author based in Berlin. He writes for the German weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT and has been described by FALTER magazine as ‘Germany’s sharpest and most influential Middle Eastern commentator’. To date, BLOWBACK has sold more than 300,000 copies in Germany.
https://michael-lueders.de/