Book Review: Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East
August 27th, 2008 by Adam
In the American Interest, Scott Carpenter has a review of Robin Wright’s Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East. Wright looks at the future of the struggle for political reform in the Middle East. According to Carpenter, the three issues that this political struggle will resolve is the renewal of a social contract between governments and their people, reconciliation of women’s rights and Islam, and the integration of Islamists into the political sphere. Overall, Carpenter gives the book a positive review saying, “The next president would therefore do well to read Dreams and Shadows to understand the aspirations of Middle Eastern liberals and moderates, and the opponents they face.”
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