Yemen: Dancing on the Heads of Snakes - Brossura

Clark, Victoria

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ISBN 10: 0300117019 ISBN 13: 9780300117011

Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 2010

Riassunto

Yemen is the dark horse of the Middle East. Every so often it enters the headlines for one alarming reason or another—links with al-Qaeda, kidnapped Westerners, explosive population growth—then sinks into obscurity again. But, as Victoria Clark argues in this riveting book, we ignore Yemen at our peril. The poorest state in the Arab world, it is still dominated by its tribal makeup and has become a perfect breeding ground for insurgent and terrorist movements.

Clark returns to the country where she was born to discover a perilously fragile state that deserves more of our understanding and attention. On a series of visits to Yemen between 2004 and 2009, she meets politicians, influential tribesmen, oil workers and jihadists as well as ordinary Yemenis. Untangling Yemen’s history before examining the country’s role in both al-Qaeda and the wider jihadist movement today, Clark presents a lively, clear, and up-to-date account of a little-known state whose chronic instability is increasingly engaging the general reader.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Victoria Clark is a former correspondent and Moscow bureau chief for theObserver. She now works as a freelance journalist and writer, contributing to theIndependent, Prospect magazine, and the Tablet.

Product Description:

Book by Clark Victoria

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Yale Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0300117019
• ISBN 13: 9780300117011
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 311