Militia State

- Reviews -

"A distinguishing feature of the last 40 years from Lebanon to Iran has been the displacement of state power and legitimacy by parasitic sectarian actors who enforce their claims to authority through criminality and unchecked violence. The model for this is Khomeinist Iran and its partners in Lebanese Hezbollah. The process has accelerated since 2003 - when the folly of the US and its allies and the degeneration of the Syrian uprising into brutal civil war opened up new territories for Tehran. The rise of the Hashd al Sha' abi in Iraq is the most dramatic expression of this political pathology. Drawing widely on published sources, confidential diplomatic reporting and interviews with many of the key players, the vastly experienced Baria Alamuddin describes this process with chilling immediacy and vivid detail. If you care about the future of the region, read this book. " Sir John Jenkins KCMG LVO

- Author Bio -

Baria Alamuddin is an award-winning international journalist and broadcaster. She recently received a "Lifetime Achievement Award" from the 2018 Commonwealth Businesswomen Awards; and the 2018 Arab Women of the Year Award, for Achievement in Media, through Regent' s University, London. She is the founder of Media Services Syndicate and has interviewed numerous heads of state including; Margaret Thatcher, Benazir Bhutto, King Hussain of Jordan, Yasser Arafat and Fidel Castro, to name a few. Baria was the last journalist to interview Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Over the course of her career she interviewed hundreds of Western, Arab and global politicians, diplomats, cultural figures and other luminaries. For many years she was Editor at Large for leading Arab newspaper Al-Hayat and is now a columnist for the Arab News. She is currently at the final stages of publishing two books with Middle Eastern themes. Baria was a News Anchor for Lebanese Television, and in-house Middle East analyst for CNN. She makes numerous appearances as an analyst on Middle Eastern affairs on channels like the BBC (TV and radio; regularly participating on DateLine London), Sky News, ITN, CNBC, Al-Arabia, Al-Jazeera and many other channels. During the 1980s and 1990s she wrote regular columns for Al-Sada, Ar-Rajul and Al-Hawadith publications, along with contributing to First Magazine. Baria was also a journalist for Sawt al-Kuwait radio 1990-91 during the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait. Baria is a frequent guest speaker and moderator at international conferences. She was the President of the International Arab Charity since 2004 and was a member of the advisory board of the Tallberg Forum in Sweden. She is a member of the board of directors of the British Lebanese Association in London. Baria is the director of the media company International Communications Experts (ICE), as part of which Baria taught communications courses at Westminster University & East Anglia University, along with providing extensive communications and media training to dozens of prominent figures around the world. Baria is married and has two daughters, Tala and Amal. ===Sir William has been Government and International Affairs Adviser at Control Risks and Chair of the Ethics Committee since July 2012. He is also Director and Trustee of CRT Ltd and a Non-Executive Director of HSBC Bank Middle East. Since retiring from the UK Diplomatic Service in 2012, he has held a number of positions including UK Envoy for Aviation Security 2015/16. He is Director of WCP Consultants Ltd. He is also a Trustee of Turquoise Mountain Trust and Pact Global (UK). Sir William joined the Diplomatic Service in 1975 and had successive postings in Abu Dhabi as Commercial Attache, and then in Tripoli, Libya as Second Secretary Political. After a few years in London, where he worked successively on the Libya/Syria Desk and the Iran/Iraq Desk, he was posted to Australia as Head of the Political Section at the British High Commission in Canberra. Returning to London in 1992, he was appointed Deputy Head of United Nations Department. He then spent two years as an Overseas Inspector before being posted to Riyadh as Deputy Head of Mission and Consul General from 1995 to 1998. On his return to London in 1998, Sir William was appointed Head of Middle East Department, where he served from 1999 to 2002. In 2002 he was appointed Ambassador to Sudan during the negotiations for a comprehensive peace agreement between the Government of Khartoum and the southern rebels (SPLA). In June 2005 he was appointed Ambassador to Iraq and served there for 14 months, during the drafting and passing in a referendum of the new Iraqi Constitution. He was Ambassador to Saudi Arabia from 2007-2010 and Ambassador to Afghanistan from 2010-2012. Sir William was awarded an Honorary Degree (LLD) from the University of Dundee in June 2016.

- Full Details -

Status:	No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13:	9781914325168
Published:	28 Apr 2022
Published In:	United Kingdom
Imprint:	Gilgamesh Publishing
Publisher:	Gilgamesh Publishing
Format:	Hardback
Height:	221mm
Width:	142mm
Spine:	24mm
Weight:	600g
Pages:	250

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