Iraq
The West Shakes Up the Middle East
Published on 13. September 2016
978-1-63353-438-4 (ISBN)
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In Patrick Cockburn on Iraq: The West Shakes Up The Middle East, The Independent continues its series of History As It Happened books. Over the past 15 years the US and its allies should have had the greatest interest in maintaining a Middle East status quo. But, as Cockburn details in a series of insightful articles published in The Independent, the West has been the most radical instrument of change in the Middle East.
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Patrick Cockburn is the 2014 Foreign Affairs Journalist of The Year and an acclaimed Middle East correspondent for The Independent. He has authored hundreds of articles on Iraq and its role in the Middle East for The Independent. With his brother Andrew, Patrick is the author of Saddam Hussein: An American Obsession (2002), the author of The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq (2006) and Muqtada: Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia Revival, and the Struggle for Iraq (2008).
