Dilip Hiro, Author . Routledge $17.95 (560p) ISBN 978-0-415-28802-6
Also a journalist, who has reported on the Middle East and Central Asia for 20 years, Hiro offers a deeper and broader study, including the history of Islam and the beginning of its modern confrontation with the West in the 19th century. Then he...
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Dilip Hiro, Author . Carroll & Graf $17.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-7867-1269-4
While he weighed in last year with War Without End: The Rise of Islamist Terrorism and the Global Response, in 1996 Hiro published this huge encyclopedic dictionary, here "revised, updated, and expanded," covering everything from aal
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Dilip Hiro, Author . Nation $15.95 (403p) ISBN 978-1-56025-544-4
The title of this look at the oil economy is misleading, as only a small portion of the book addresses journalist Hiro's belief in an imminent scramble for oil resembling 19th-century European colonialist power struggles. What he describes is...
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Dilip Hiro, Author Routledge $42 (334p) ISBN 978-0-415-90207-6
Journalist Hiro, an authority on Islamic affairs ( Iran Under the Ayatollahs ), effectively delineates the cycles and schisms within Islam and their considerable impact on contemporary events. ``Revival and reform have been recurring phenomena in...
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Dilip Hiro. New Press (Perseus, dist.), $28.95 (400p) ISBN 978-1-62097-130-7
Hiro (The Longest August) develops a dense, intriguing analysis of India's complex sociopolitical climate since 1991, when the country launched extensive neoliberal reforms. The book reveals the gap between astonishing technological developments and
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