Isn’t the opposite equally true?
Lawrence Rosen: Between Sunni and Shi’a, 19 November 2020
Sunnis and Shi’a: A Political History
by Laurence Louër.
Princeton, 227 pp., £25, February,978 0 691 18661 0 Show More
by Laurence Louër.
Princeton, 227 pp., £25, February,
Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Rivalry that Unravelled the Middle East
by Kim Ghattas.
Wildfire, 337 pp., £20, January,978 1 4722 7109 9 Show More
by Kim Ghattas.
Wildfire, 337 pp., £20, January,
“... can be as dangerous as difference. Discussing the involvement of the Saudi prince Mohammed bin Salman in the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, she notes that his ‘ways were also the ways of the Islamic Republic, hunting down its dissidents everywhere, imprisoning and torturing women, instilling fear in its neighbours’. Ghattas, a Lebanese-born reporter ... ”