Eastern Cauldron: Islam, Afghanistan, Palestine, and Iraq in a Marxist Mirror

by Gilbert Achcar

Book Overview

The route to any coherent understanding of our time runs through the issues addressed in this collection of essays: the political meaning of Islam, the relation of the West to the Islamic world, the new form of imperialism signaled by the Soviet and U.S. occupations of Afghanistan, the intractable conflict over Palestine. In confronting these inescapable issues, global power is being reshaped and the ends for which it will be used are being decided.
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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1583670955
• ISBN13: 9781583670958
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Monthly Review Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.0"