Ebook: The Strong Horse: Power, Politics and the Clash of Arab Civilizations

In a provocative, timely book, a noted journalist and expert on Arab-American affairs overturns long-held Western myths about the Arab world, and offers a doctrine to help the United States correct its assumptions concerning the region.;The strong horse: tribes -- "An Arab regardless of his own wishes": Arab Nationalism and anti-Americanism -- The Muslim Reformation -- "The regime made us violent": The Islamists' war against the Muslims -- Bin Laden, the Father of Arab Democracy -- The Schizophrenic Gulf -- The battle of ideas: the conqueror of darkness and the Arab Voltaires -- "Your children or your guns": the Cedar Revolution and the fight for the future of Lebanon -- The capital of Arab resistance: Damascus's Regime of Terror -- Middle East Cold War and the Israeli strong horse.