Reviews

From Deep State to Islamic State: The Arab Counter-Revolution and Its Jihadi Legacy by Jean-Pierre Filiu

idrees2022's review against another edition

5.0

This panoramic view of the Arab revolutions and their unraveling is the best book you'll read on the subject. Filiu offers acute, historically informed insights into what he calls the New Mamluks and how they used various arrows in their quiver to pin the revolution and steadily emasculate it. He is unsparing in his indictment of the local executioners as well as the international enablers.

I'll be posting a fuller review of this book later.