Archive for February, 2009
Resistance: The Essence of the Islamist Revolution
Resistance: The Essence of the Islamist Revolution
By Alastair Crooke
Pluto Press, February 2009
Available at bookshops in the UK, at Amazon (UK) and Amazon (US).
Seymour M. Hersh, The New Yorker magazine:
‘Crooke’s mission in this erudite and most readable book is to reassure America and the rest of the world that Hamas, Hezbollah and the seemingly menacing Islamic […]
Posted: February 19th, 2009 under Alastair Crooke, Islamists.
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Western Media Representations, Iran, and Orientalist Stereotypes
A Conflicts Forum Monograph, by Seyed Mohammad Marandi, January, 2009
The image of Iran is almost always negative in the western media. Whether it is the BBC, CNN, The New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, Time Magazine, or Newsweek, Iran is regularly described as a land of abnormalities. One could argue that their representations of […]
Posted: February 12th, 2009 under Iran, MONOGRAPHS, Media.
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Imagined affinities, imagined enmities: The strange tale of Iran and Israel
By Alastair Crooke, Le Monde diplomatique, February, 2009
The early Zionists never believed they would be accepted in the Arab world and pinned their hopes on the non-Arab periphery instead, particularly Iran. Israel reversed that policy by opening talks with a weakened Arafat in the early 1990s. But peace with the Palestinians did not happen and […]
Posted: February 7th, 2009 under ARTICLES, Alastair Crooke, Iran, Israel, Middle East.
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