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Wednesday 3 December 2008 08:00 - 09:15The Politics of Chaos in the Middle East
Wednesday 9 April 2008 17:30 to 18:30
Location
Chatham House, London
Participants
Dr Olivier Roy, Research Director, French National Centre for Scientific Research; author, The Politics of Chaos in the Middle East (2008)
Chair: Dr Khaled Hroub, Director, Cambridge Arab Media Project
Type: Members event
The speaker will argue that the unintended and unforeseen consequences of the 'War on Terror' have artificially conflated conflicts in the Middle East such that they appear to be the expression of a widespread 'Muslim anger' against the West. He will discuss his new book in which he seeks to restore the individual logic and dynamics of each of these conflicts to better understand the widespread political discontent that sustains them. Instead of two opposed sides, an 'us' and a 'them', he warns that the West faces an array of 'reverse alliances'. He concludes that the West has no alternative but to engage in a dialogue with the Islamo-nationalists of Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.
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