Black Wave

Note on Names and Spellings
People
Map
Introduction

Part I Revolution
1.Cassette Revolution
2.Today Tehran, Tomorrow Jerusalem
3.Bleeding Heart
4.Darkness

Part II Competition
5.I Killed the Pharaoh
6.No Dupatta
7.Karbala in Beirut
8.Shia Kafir
9.Mecca Is Mine
10.Culture Wars
11.Black Wave
12.Generation 1979

Part III Revenge
13.Cain and Abel
14.Fracture
15.Surrender
16.Counterrevolution
17.Between ISIS and IRGC
18.Achilles¿ Heel
19.Murder on the Bosporus
Conclusion

Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

Kim Ghattas is an Emmy-award winning journalist, analyst, and author with more than 20 years of experience covering the Middle East, international affairs, and US foreign policy for the BBC, the Financial Times and de Volkskrant. She is currently a contributing writer for The Atlantic magazine, a regular contributor to the Financial Times, and a 2023-2024 Inaugural Distinguished Fellow at Columbia University's Institute for Global Politics.

Ghattas is the author of The Secretary, the New York Times best-seller about US foreign policy and her travels around the world with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Her second book Black Wave, about the Saudi-Iran rivalry, was named a New York Times notable book in 2020 and has since become a reference for universities and diplomats. Ghattas is currently writing her third book, which revisits Lebanon¿s civil war as the origin story of the US-Iran clash in the Middle East.

As a leading voice on Middle Eastern affairs, Ghattas shares her expertise on risk and opportunities in regional and geopolitical trends with a variety of key players and institutions in the region and in the United States. She serves on the board of trustees of the American University of Beirut and was chair of the board of directors for the Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism network from 2020 to 2023. She sits on the advisory council of the Atlas for Impunity. Ghattas is also a former nonresident senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (2017¿2022), a former public policy fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2017) and a former Civitella Ranieri fellow (2019).