Gerges, Fawaz A.

What Really Went Wrong : The West and the Failure of Democracy in the Middle East. - 1st ed. - New Haven : Yale University Press, 2024. ©2024. - 1 online resource (334 pages)

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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: Narrating History -- CHAPTER 1. Mossadegh, Nasser, and What Could Have Been -- CHAPTER 2. A Portrait of Mossadegh -- CHAPTER 3. Saving Iran from Democracy -- CHAPTER 4. From the Cusp of Democracy to the Abyss of Absolute Monarchy -- CHAPTER 5. What Did the Overthrow of Mossadegh Mean for Iran and the Middle East? -- CHAPTER 6. Nasser: The Pan-Arab Icon -- CHAPTER 7. Nasser in "Little Hollywood": Losing Egypt, Losing the Peace -- CHAPTER 8. The Suez Crisis -- CHAPTER 9. Frustrating Nasser's Arab Nationalism -- CHAPTER 10. What Have Egypt and the Arab World Lost by the Defeat of Nasser's Secular Nationalism? -- CHAPTER 11. From Iran to Guatemala: The Fabrication of a Communist Threat -- CONCLUSION -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

An ambitious alternative history of the modern Middle East.

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