Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East by Kim Ghattas

Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East

Kim Ghattas

400 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative slow-paced

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" A] sweeping and authoritative history (The New York Times Book Review), Black Waveis an unprecedented and ambitious examination of how the modern Middle East unraveled and why it started with the pivotal year of 1979. Kim Ghattas seamlessly weav...

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informative 97%
challenging 70%
dark 45%
reflective 35%
emotional 20%
hopeful 15%
sad 15%
tense 10%
adventurous 2%
inspiring 2%

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fast 10%

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