书籍介绍
1979年如同一道裂缝，将中东的命运一分为二。本书以伊朗革命与沙特王国的对抗为轴心，追溯这场持续五十年的角力如何重塑整片地区：从德黑兰到贝鲁特，从巴格达到大马士革，宗教被当作权力、土地与枪炮的筹码，被精心地
作者简介
Kim Ghattas covers international affairs for the BBC as well as Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. She was the BBC's State Department correspondent from 2008 to 2013 and traveled regularly with the secretary of state. She was previously a Middle East correspondent for the BBC and the Financial Times, based in Beirut. Ghattas was part of an Emmy Award-winning BBC team covering the Lebanon-Israel conflict of 2006. Her work has also been published in Time magazine, the Boston Globe, and the Washington Post and she appears regularly on MSNBC and NPR as a commentator.
AI导读
核心看点
- 以1979年为起点，深度剖析沙特与伊朗的教派 rivalry。
- 揭示宗教如何被政治权力扭曲，成为争夺话语权的工具。
- 通过人物故事串联中东四十年动荡，叙事如小说般引人入胜。
读者共识
- 叙事精彩且条理清晰，被赞为解读中东乱局最透彻的非虚构作品。
- 普遍反映人名过多导致阅读门槛高，部分读者建议先读中文版。
- 读者认为归因略显单一，缺乏对美国政策及世俗暴力根源的深入探讨。
精彩摘录
- "One man killed by religious violence,the other killed by secular violence; one assassinated in the name of God,the other in the name of nationalism."
- "There was no dictator imposing the veil anymore,but thedictatorship of the closed mind had taken root."
- "There were no good options for good men.So Sarout joined an Islamist rebel group.He grew a beard.He stoppedsinging."
- "A religious war had been invented by men hungry forpower,land,and guns."
- "The case of Samira and her colleagues represents thecase of Syria,trapped between the regime,the embodiment of brutality,and the Islamists,the embodiment of inhumanity.For the two,the prisons werethe first thing they cared about in whatever area they control."
- "As the Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaardwrote:"It is perfectly true...that life must be understood backwards.Butthey forget the other proposition,that it must be lived forwards."
用户评论
已伊朗和沙特为中心，梳理中东过去四十年做的不错，巴基斯坦线很有意思，阿拉伯国家线有些薄弱。虽然不认同把主要原因归于伊朗和沙特的观点，但整理得很好。
I am totally manipulated by the western view of Arab. All I can picture is the image of warfare and isis. It’s all about theirs history and fight for religious identity. Started from the 1979 Iran revolution,Shia rose up to gain the power over sunni ,all the ripple effects,the oil money like black flow running from Saudi to other Muslim.
不同于西方视角下的单一主题，由鲜活的人和事串起四十年的中东由伊朗和沙特的对立而造成的一系列变化和挣扎。了解到很多新闻背后的故事
作者从霍梅尼的流放写起，基本跨越了40年的时间。读后发现，1.这些穆斯林国家的悲剧似乎都源于霍梅尼的回国执政；2.有什么样的政府就有什么样的人民；3.以为新的当政者会带来新的希望，可事实并不如此；4.别再说什么9012年的话了，历史其实正在倒退。
几乎所有关于中东地区的书籍都会提到伊斯兰世界的两大支柱：石油和宗教(Blood and oil 里面说的更直接，沙特的两大支柱就是石油和瓦哈比教派), 而石油几乎和平民无关，宗教却和平民相关，因此在这片永不缺乏“迷路的人”的土地上，宗教精神领袖很容易对这类人轻而易举的加以利用，各种悲剧便源源不断。
不算好读。断断续续小两个月，截至以巴冲突升级的今天才总算读完。虽然不少人名还是分不清记不住，但好歹也算帮我捋清了些许思路。建议与其它资料对照同看，毕竟西方搅屎棍并不在此书讨论范围内。中东近代历史转点为1979年三大事件：伊朗g命，麦加禁寺事件，苏联入侵阿富汗。本书主要对焦于伊朗沙特，放射至周边的伊拉克、巴基斯坦、阿富汗、埃及等国。以巴冲突并非本书侧重点。
何为疯颠？上一秒还穿着短裙，下一秒就要裹上黑袍戴上面巾：黑袍面巾是传统，女权是西方洗脑。哪怕是有着阿拉伯女权先锋之称的埃及，一夜之间却也被这波凶猛黑浪席卷吞没，曾经的诺奖得主也以叛教为由遭到暗杀。dictator可怕，但比d更可怕的是包裹在宗教下的d。无论多么荒诞不经，只要冠以神谕的幌子，一切倒退便都显得光明正大了。
in the name of kindness or god or anything, they teach people to hate, to kill, to die. then there must be something wrong
人名实在是太多了，先看中文版..
把中东过去五十年的种种纠葛讲得最清楚最有条理的一本书，没有之一。忘了在哪看到过，叙述历史是历史写作的最高形式。话说得也许夸张，不过从这个角度来说，作者在前言里说自己这本书不是历史研究著作，实在是过谦了。核心主线是沙特和伊朗，一个是少数的什叶派，一个是逊尼派中的边缘，为了争夺主流话语权，缠斗不休。其影响放射到周边的埃及、黎巴嫩、巴基斯坦、阿富汗，以致整个世界。作者的结论是，沙特和伊朗都还笼罩在1979的阴影之下，宗教不够，就拿民族主义来凑。这出大戏，目前还没有落幕的迹象。
Illegal copy. Another book I read on for three months.
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