商品簡介
Drawn from a decade of research in eight languages across a dozen countries, Why They Don't Hate Us is the true story of how globalization has impacted on real people across the Muslim world, from young headscarf-clad feminists to terrorist intellectuals, to rock bands willing to risk arrest and torture to play their music.
In a study based on the most detailed analysis ever offered of cultural and economic globalization in the Middle East and North Africa, Professor LeVine launches a searing attack on the assumptions and prejudices that have long been taken for granted by both liberals and conservatives. There is no single amorphous "they" - Muslims are every bit as diverse and contradictory as Westerners - but this idea has allowed fundamentalists on both sides to exert control over their respective societies. The real barrier to greater understanding between the West and the Muslim world is not the "Axis of Evil"; it is the "Axis of Arrogance and Ignorance" that has infected commentators and policy makers across the political spectrum.
Part-history, part-economic treatise and part-travelogue, this work should be read by anyone who has asked themselves the familiar question "why do they hate us?" and wondered "what if they don't?"
作者簡介
Mark LeVine is Associate Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History, Culture and Islamic Studies at the University of California, Irvine.
