View from the Eye of the Storm: Terror and Reason in the Middle East - new book

Harari's goal is to move beyond the sterile discourse of foreign affairs journals, and encourage the world to view the Middle East through what he calls the eyes of the "proverbial taxi driver", the man on the street whose wisdom outstrips that of the experts. And, as he observes, to anyone familiar with the Middle East from the taxi driver's perspective, the "persistent ugly storm" of Islamism engulfing the Arab world is far more than a territorial battle with Israel, it is an "undeclared World War III" that rages from Bali to Madrid, from Nairobi to New York, from Buenos Aires to Istanbul, and from Tunis to Moscow. The result is that the Arab world has become an "unprecedented breeding ground for cruel dictators, terror networks, fanaticism, incitement, suicide murders, and general decline". And unless the free nations of the world mobilize to stop it, Harari argues, this new world war will be all too easy to lose. Eloquent in its simplicity, yet imbued with the passion of a lifetime seeker of truth, "A View from the Eye of the Storm" is that rare book with the power to change hearts and minds.