Why They Don't Hate Us: Lifting the Veil on the Axis of Evil. Mark LeVine

Why They Don't Hate Us: Lifting the Veil on the Axis of Evil



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Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Language: English
Page: 457
ISBN: 1851683658, 9781851683659

From Publishers Weekly

If media chatter about the "Axis of Evil" seems ubiquitous to the point of losing its meaning, LeVine offers up an alternative "Axis of Empathy" to counteract what he sees as the U.S.'s dangerous "Axis of Arrogance and Ignorance." The author uses his own experiences traveling in the Middle East and North Africa to show readers not only that "they" don't hate "us," but that our concepts of "us" and "them" are invalid and skewed. This sprawling book is divided into three parts, and touches on many diverse subjects that fall under its larger themes of globalization and Middle Eastern attitudes toward the West. LeVine, a professor of Middle Eastern history and a musician who has recorded with musicians as diverse as Mick Jagger and Hassan Hakmoun, clearly has an interest in music and its potential for bridge-building. He includes a chapter on "Rock and Resistance in the Middle East and North Africa" and advocates for what he calls "culture jamming," or bringing people together to "build an alternative to imperialism, occupation, intolerance, and violence." LeVine writes in an engaging, if occasionally wandering, style, and the most effective parts of the book are those in which he recounts his personal experiences. Although aimed at an academic audience, this book will be valuable to anyone wishing to hear a different perspective on the complicated relationship between the U.S. and the Islamic world. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Review

A bold and iconoclastic work based on extensive personal experience ... essential for understanding ... the Middle East today. -- Joel Beinin, Professor of Middle East History, Stanford UniversityA clarion call for building genuinely alternative cross-cultural bridges in the age of the 'war on terror'. -- Chris Toensing, Editor, Middle East ReportEverybody talks about ‘globalization’ and ‘terrorism’ but few do it with such analytical clarity and moral outrage. An awesome book. -- Rodolfo D. Torres, author of Savage State: Welfare, Capitalism, and InequalityMark LeVine is a wandering minstrel who also happens to be a brilliant Middle Eastern scholar. -- Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz and Dead CitiesPerceptive, cosmopolitan, and dazzlingly well-informed. -- Thomas Frank"His analysis of the war in Iraq is a must read." --International Journal of Middle East Studies



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