Politic


Animal Farm
1984
The Prince
The Communist Manifesto
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
The Republic
The Social Contract
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Leviathan
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
Politics
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
The State and Revolution
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Kim Ghattas
Although our countries have been changed by the hegemonizing influences of both Iran and Saudi Arabia, the headlines in the Western media have always reduced matters of extraordinary depth and complexity to a mere snapshot, which more often than not has catered to an orientalist audience that regards Arab or Muslim cultures as backward and to security-focused policymakers. Over time those two groups have worked to reinforce each other, merging to such an extent that everything was viewed through ...more
Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East

Ban Ki-moon
Saving our planet requires you to be ambitious in what you aim, and, equally, in how hard you work to reach your goal.
Ban Ki-Moon

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