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Black Wave, Kim Ghattas

Adriana Moroi and Laura Benea

A cultural, societal and political introspection of the Middle East, starting from the question “What happened to us?”.

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Cover text, English translationBlack WaveKim Ghattas

Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
History, New York Times: Top 100 Books of 2020
“An essential book for understanding the origins of today’s conflicts in the Middle East.”, Lawrence Wright, Pulitzer Prize winner (translated from the Romanian cover)
Humanitas

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Migrating into Books, review

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Kim Ghattas. 2020. Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East. Translated in Romanian in 2022 as Valul negru. Arabia Saudită, Iran și rivalitatea de patruzeci de ani care a destrămat cultura, religia și memoria colectivă în Orientul Mijlociu. Humanitas Publishing House, translated by Andrei Pogăciaș

A cultural, societal and political introspection of the Middle East, starting from the question “What happened to us?”.

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* Adriana MOROI, master programme Regional Development and International Cooperation, 2022 – 2024

*Laura BENEA, initiator of the Migrating into Books project, graduate of the International Relations and European Integration master programme (2022)

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