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Smith, Lee, 1962-

Title The strong horse : power, politics and the clash of Arab civilizations / Lee Smith.

Publication Info.	New York : Doubleday, [2010]
	©2010

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Location	Call No.	Status
Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department	965.05 SMITH	Check Shelf
Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction	956.05 SMI	Check Shelf

Edition	First edition.
Description	xiii, 239 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-229) and index.
Contents	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.
Summary	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.
Subject	Arab nationalism.
	Civilization, Arab -- 20th century.
	Civilization, Arab -- 21st century.
	Nationalism -- Arab countries.
	Group identity -- Arab countries.
	United States -- Foreign relations -- Arab countries.
	Arab countries -- Foreign relations -- United States.
	Lebanon -- Politics and government -- 1975-1990.
	Lebanon -- History -- Civil War, 1975-1990.
	Lebanon -- History -- 1990-
ISBN	9780385516112
	0385516118

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