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| HURST AUTHORS IN THE MEDIA |
The Economist
2008
- review of Killing Civilians (Hugo Slim) 'This is a clear, impartial and honest book. In short, it is very good.'
- review of Architect of Global Jihad (Brynjar Lia) 'This biography by Brynjar Lia, a Norwegian expert on the subject, is a welcome addition to a crowded field of books on Islamist extremism.'
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New York Review of Books
2007
- review of Realm of the Black Mountain (Elizabeth Roberts)
2006
2005
Foreign Affairs
2008
- review of Oil and Politics in the Gulf of Guinea (Ricardo Soares de Oliveira)
- review of The Politics of Chaos in the Middle East (Olivier Roy)
2007
- Eric Herring and Glen Rangwala), 'detailed, thoroughly researched, clear and closely reasoned'
- review of A Dirty War in West Africa (L.Gberie), 'Gberie's analysis is consistently readable, and he does a fine job of disentangling the complexities of the civil war'
2006
- review of The Armenians (R. Panossian), 'an inspired and thoughtful navigation'
2005
The Sunday Times
2008
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The Guardian
2008
2007
2006
- inside story based on Inside the Global Jihad (Omar Nasiri)
- front page story, 'CIA tried to silence EU on torture flights', based on Ghost Plane
- review of Rescuing Afghanistan (William Maley) 'a slim, lucid, dispassionate overview'
- review of Confronting Iran 'in his brilliant new book, Ansari portrays the growing "secularisation" of Iranian society as an unstoppable force' (Stephen Grey)
2005
The Daily Telegraph
2005
- review of Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide (Gerard Prunier) 'a reminder both of Western feebleness and Khartoum's enduring resolve to crush any form of dissent'
- review of Revolt on the Tigris (Mark Etherington) 'Etherington is a hero...he worked tirelessly and with real success and...writes with wit and powerful conviction.'
Financial Times
The Spectator
New Statesman
2007
2006
- front page story + 4pp. within based on Ghost Plane (Stephen Grey)
2005
- Books of the Year, Pankaj Mishra, 'I profited a great deal from Faisal Devji's Landscapes of the Jihad, which is one of the most intelligent analyses of the world-view of the militant Islamist'
Times Literary Supplement
2007
- review of Islam and the Abolition of Slavery (Gervase Clarence-Smith) 'As a historian, Clarence-Smith has certainly made his case. Islam and the Abolition of Slavery is a tour de force.'
2006
- review of Confronting Iran (Ali Ansari) 'Ansari’s book is one to ponder, in particular those passages in which he uses the Iranian press to demonstrate the seriousness of the debate within Iran about the direction the country should take. They may help to dissolve those images of mad ayatollahs armed with nuclear weapons raging through the Middle East.'
London Review of Books
2007
Washington Post
2006
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