The Arab World and Western Intelligence: Analysing the Middle East, 1956-1981

This book addresses a critical question embedded within a heated debate about American intelligence after 9/11: have Western experts failed in some fundamental way to understand the dynamics, leaders and culture of the Middle East?
Using the most recently declassified documents, interviews and Arabic sources, the book examines seminal case studies culminating in Sadat's dramatic assassination and explores how the most knowledgeable and powerful intelligence agencies in the world have been so notoriously caught off guard in this region.

Author: Dina Rezk
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 11/14/2018
Pages: 360
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781474444408

About the Author
Dina Rezk is Lecturer in Middle Eastern History at the University of Reading. She received her Ph.D from the University of Cambridge in 2013, where she also completed her undergraduate degree, and subsequently spent two years at the Politics Department in Warwick University in September as a Teaching Fellow in Intelligence and Security.