Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East

by Kim Ghattas

scribes of Solomon in the Babylonian Talmud to John O’Hara’s Appointment in Samarra—ranked as one of the best modern English-language novels—and the tale of the merchant’s servant in W. Somerset Maugham’s 1933 play Sheppey.