Middle East - A History of Violence

Second Intifada, September 11, Lebanese Civil War, suicide attacks in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan... Bloody events caused by regime changes in Tehran and Istanbul between 1906-1908... Rising waves of rebellion against the mandate regimes established in the 1920s and oppressive regimes... Protests that started with the partition of Palestine in 1948, military coups, tensions escalated by governments much more oppressive than the regimes that collapsed... The Iranian Revolution in 1979, the Islamist uprising in Mecca, the Camp David Accords and the occupation of Afghanistan caused events...

Jihadist armed struggles and Al-Qaeda in Egypt and Algeria in the 1990s...
Bozarslan's work highlights three main periods in the chronology of violence in the Middle East: the revolutionary movements extending from the Ottoman Empire to Iran between 1906 and 1979, the authoritarian regimes of 1950 to 1970 with the partition of Palestine in 1948, and Sayyid Qutb in 1966. Islamist oppositions that started with the execution of , and continue until today.

Bozarslan, who says, "Studying about violence in the Middle East means accepting to enter a minefield," moves forward successfully in this difficult terrain by staying away from the culturalist tendency that portrays this violent tradition of the Middle East as the fate of those living there.

Middle East: A History of Violence, first with the violence, dynamics and origins of the oppressive regime, then the rebellion against this regime, and finally the suppression of the rebellion; It strikingly reveals the socio-economic reasons that push people to engage in armed struggle or to sacrifice themselves.



Number of Pages: 390

Year of Printing: 2010


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Iletisim Publishing

Number of Pages: 390

First Print Year: 2010

Language Turkish