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Cruelty and Silence: War, Tyranny, Uprising, and the Arab World
Why have so many Arabs stayed silent in the face of tyranny and cruelty, and what would it take to break that silence?
At a glance
- Author
- Kanan Makiya
Why read it
- You will learn the idea of putting cruelty first, a purely human verdict on human conduct that needs no higher authority
- You will question the reflex of blaming someone else, which the author says still carries intellectual and moral authority among Arabs
- You will understand why witnesses to extreme cruelty often fall silent, since it defies reflection and analysis
Who it is for
- Readers following Iraq and the Gulf war with moral seriousness
- Writers and activists asking how to speak against tyranny
- Students of Middle East politics who want more than slogans
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