Farah Dem

Happy that I read the book, sad that i finished reading it! I didnt know Kim Ghattas before neither i read her first book. I heard about her 2nd book that she newly released "Black Wave: SaudiArabia, Iran, and the forty-year rivalry that unraveled culture, religion, and collective memory in the middle east". I have been looking for a book to read about the history of geopolitics in middle east for some good time. And here it is, a book that is beautifully written, easy to read, digest and follow through and most importantly written with alot of passion that you cant but intensely connect and feel sorrowed when reading the stories of people who have been struggling for freedom of thought and expression and relentlessly fighting to build beautiful democratic countries from Egypt all the way to Pakistan. Although the events and the stories are too sorrowful and despairing I did not want the book to finish. The more i read of the book the more I felt myself connecting to its essence and the values it depicts, finding identity in it and believing more than anytime ever in the righteousness of our current struggle and fight. Despite the black and trying times we are in, hope lies in our relentless fight for countries where we rule and not get ruled.