Kim Ghattas on Black Wave and the Unraveling of the Modern Middle East

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Kim Ghattas on Black Wave and the Unraveling of the Modern Middle East

Andrew Keen

Dec 08, 2020

On today's episode, Andrew talks with Kim Ghattas about her new book, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East.

Kim Ghattas is an Emmy-award winning journalist and writer who covered the Middle East for twenty years for the BBC and the Financial Times. She has also reported on the U.S State Department and American politics, and is the author of The Secretary: A Journey with Hillary Clinton from Beirut to the Heart of American Power. She has been published in The Atlantic, the Washington Post, and Foreign Policy and is currently a non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington. Born and raised in Lebanon, she now lives between Beirut and Washington D.C.

This episode is brought to you by WW Norton, publisher of Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World by Rafia Zakaria, available wherever books are sold.

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