Just finished Kim Ghattis’s “Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East”
Ghattis starts with the question, “what happened to us?” Countries once rich in culture and art — Iran, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Syria, Pakistan — are now smothered in religious conservatism. She traces how we all got to where we are, and what hope looks like now.
