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Born into the Christian minority in Lebanon and since settled in France, Amin Maalouf remarks a unique position in global discussion. His first publication, The Crusades Through Arab Eye, was a critical and commercial success and remains in print after 20 years. In Disordered World, Maalouf combines his command word of record with a critical perspective on modern-day culture, East and West - subscribing to them with a brutal moral clarity and a propulsive style. Analyzing tensions between the Arab and American worlds, Maalouf considers something beyond a "clash of civilizations". Both civilizations have their own continuity, integrity, and morality. Yet inside our times, both have become exhausted and debased. The West has betrayed its principles, even while it pushes democracy overseas. The Arab world, nostalgic because of its golden time, has rushed toward radicalism. We fall short of ideological debate not only because we lack common ground, but because we have been fast burning off what ground we stood on. Maalouf talks about a hundred years of confrontations between our civilizations, culminating in the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Yet he transforms to the global obstacles we face today - local climate change, financial collapse, humanitarian catastrophe - with impressive hope that they could yet unite us in a bid to save what's truly common to us all. Intelligent, impassioned yet measured, Disordered World reveals Maalouf's eyesight of renewed cohesion inside our currently disordered world.
