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...Zizi Strallen as Q, the peacemaker who finally speaks out, Carly Bawden’s Anna, driven to addiction by the strain of compromise, and Angela Marie Hurst’s Dee, the reluctant star, all deliver the songs superbly...
...The Dictatorship Syndrome, by Alaa al Aswany, translated by Russell Harris Haus Publishing, RRP£12.99, 160 pages Understanding Libya Since Gaddafi, by Ulf Laessing, Hurst, RRP£17.99, 240 pages The Arab...
...Al-Qaeda chief Ayman Zawahiri is seen “crying his eyes out”. Isis originator Abu-Musab Zarqawi crashes Anas’s wedding....
...Newly installed President Bashar al-Assad is “pleasant but cocksure”, a study in “the banality of evil”....
...Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain, by Brian Catlos, Hurst, RRP£25/Basic Books, RRP$35, 488 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe....
...The reviewer is an FT curation editor and a former Middle East and Africa news editor A Revolution Undone: Egypt’s Road Beyond Revolt , by HA Hellyer, Hurst £20/OUP $29.95...
...The reviewer is an FT columnist Blood Year: Islamic State and the Failures of the War on Terror , by David Kilcullen, Hurst, £9.99...
...Saudi Arabia: A Kingdom in Peril, by Paul Aarts and Carolien Roelants, Hurst, RRP£25 / RRP$35, 288 pages Muted Modernists: The Struggle over Divine Politics in Saudi Arabia, by Madawi al-Rasheed, Hurst,...
...The writer is the FT’s defence and security editor We Love Death as You Love Life: Britain’s Suburban Terrorists, by Raffaello Pantucci, C Hurst, RRP£15.99...
...Serious Sweet, by AL Kennedy, Cape, RRP£17.99 Set over the course of a single day, and travelling from Piccadilly to Chiswick via Knightsbridge, AL Kennedy’s latest novel is an ambitious, perambulatory...
...He also now sees a clear gulf between the Taliban and al-Qaeda, which he previously regarded as the closest of allies....
...Last Chance: The Middle East in the Balance’ (IB Tauris) The 9/11 Wars, by Jason Burke, Allen Lane, RRP£30, 736 pages The Arab Revolution: Ten Lessons From the Democratic Uprising, by Jean-Pierre Filiu, Hurst...
...The Hurst exponent of NASDAQ stocks started rising much earlier, from 2002 or earlier....
...The Insurgent Archipelago By John Mackinlay C Hurst & Co £20, 292 pages FT Bookshop price: £16 Last month Kim Howells, a former British Foreign Office minister, caused a stir inside the Labour party by...
...But when al-Qaeda hit the Limburg, carrying 400,000 barrels in 2002 of crude oil, the economic effects were mainly limited to Yemen, from where the attack was mounted....
...Dubai: The Vulnerability of Success By Christopher Davidson Columbia University Press, $32.50 (Hurst & Co, £25) Dubai is used to being admired....
...The writer is assistant professor of history at New School University, New York, and author of Landscapes of the Jihad (Hurst/Cornell)...
...The writer is author with Jean-Pascal Daloz of Culture Troubles: politics and the interpretation of meaning (London: Hurst, 2006)...
...The writer, professor of history at New School University, is author of Landscapes of the Jihad (Hurst/Cornell)...
...Hurst £15.95), a guilt-inducing account of how the world shrugged while thousands died in western Sudan. Some of the year’s most readable political books are about politicians....
...RUDE WORLD edited by Rob Bailey and Ed Hurst Boxtree ₤10.00, 147 pages Revelling in its own puerility, Rude World is entirely upfront about its content: snapshots of the 100 rudest place names in the world...
...The writer, assistant professor of history at New School University, New York, is author of Landscapes of the Jihad (Hurst & Co)...
...The writer, author of Revolt on the Tigris: the al Sadr Uprising and the Governing of Iraq (Hurst/Cornell University Press 2005; Cambridge Studies in International Crisis), he was the Coalition Provisional...
...He is the author of Revolt on the Tigris: the al Sadr Uprising and the Governing of Iraq (Hurst/Cornell University Press 2005; Cambridge Studies in International Crisis, pdf), he was the Coalition Provisional...
...The writer, a professor at Ecoles des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, is the author of Globalized Islam (Hurst/Columbia UP)...
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