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03269aam a2200409Ii 4500 001 12E66BA8DC3511E9A6734EFB96128E48 003 SILO 005 20190921010010 008 181120t20192019enkabf 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2018404108 020 $a 1786495627 020 $a 9781786495624 020 $a 1786495600 020 $a 9781786495600 020 $a 1786498634 020 $a 9781786498632 035 $a (OCoLC)1065733452 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d CDX $d NZLPP $d AU@ $d NZAUC $d UAB $d DLC $d NLMVD $d IOU $d SILO 043 $a aw----- 050 4 $a DS49.7 $b .S54 2019 082 04 $a 915.60454 $2 23 100 1 $a Sky, Emma, $e author. 245 10 $a In a time of monsters : $b travels through a Middle East in revolt / $c Emma Sky. 246 3 $a Travels through a Middle East in revolt 264 1 $a London : $b Atlantic Books, $c 2019. 300 $a 309 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations (some color), map ; $c 25 cm 520 $a Returning to the UK in September 2010 after serving in Iraq as the political adviser to the top American general, Emma Sky felt no sense of homecoming. She soon found herself back in the Middle East travelling through a region in revolt.In A Time of Monsters bears witness to the demands of young people for dignity and justice during the Arab Spring; the inability of sclerotic regimes to reform; the descent of Syria into civil war; the rise of the Islamic State; and the flight of refugees to Europe. With deep empathy for its people and an extensive understanding of the Middle East, Sky makes a complex region more comprehensible. A great storyteller and observational writer, Sky also reveals the ties that bind the Middle East to the West and how blowback from our interventions in the region contributed to the British vote to leave the European Union and to the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States. 505 0 $a Prologue: What had it all been for? -- Hold your head up, you're an Egyptian! (Egypt, May 2011) -- DeÌgage! Tunisia! (June 2011) -- 'Assad -- or we burn the country' (Syria, July 2011) -- They are all thieves (Iraq, June 2011 and January 2012) -- Zero neighbours without problems (Turkey, October 2012) -- Better sixty years of tyranny than one night of anarchy Saudi Arabia (December 2012) -- ...to the hill of frenckincense (Oman, December 2012) -- We have no friends but the mountains (Kurdistan, July 2013) -- ...but surely we are brave, who take the Golden Road to Samarkand (The Silk Road, June 2014) -- The Islamic State: a caliphate in accordance with the prophetic method (Jordan, March 2015) -- What happens in the Middle East does not stay in the Middle East (The Balkans, January 2016) -- And even though it all went wrong (Britain, June-July 2016) -- Epilogue: the sun also rises. 600 10 $a Sky, Emma $x Travel $z Middle East. 651 0 $a Middle East $x Politics and government $y 21st century. 651 0 $a Middle East $x Social conditions $y 21st century. 651 0 $a Middle East $x Foreign relations $y 21st century. 941 $a 2 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20211002010331.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20190921010059.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=12E66BA8DC3511E9A6734EFB96128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search