IRAQ: The West Shakes Up The Middle East

by Patrick Cockburn

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.

Genres: History

305 pages, Paperback

Published September 13, 2016

About the author

Patrick Oliver Cockburn is an Irish journalist who has been a Middle East correspondent since 1979 for the Financial Times and, presently, The Independent.

He has written four books on Iraq's recent history. He won the Martha Gellhorn Prize in 2005, the James Cameron Prize in 2006 and the Orwell Prize for Journalism in 2009.

Reviews

[Matt Gosney]

Read it because I was in the process of coming to Iraq, it was interesting and confronting. I wouldn't expect anything less from Patrick Cockburn, I have read snippets of his stuff around the place. Again, like the Mujubir Rahman book I read - it was filled with names and incidents all over the place. Gonna read it again soon.