Book review: Fisk’s sobering view of the Middle East bites with truth

'Night of Power' lays bare, with a cynical tone, the events that have transpired in the Middle East and how the West’s lengthy oppression of the Muslim world influenced the instability and atrocities there
Book review: Fisk’s sobering view of the Middle East bites with truth

A US soldier watches as a statue of Iraq's President Saddam Hussein falls in central Baghdad in April 2003. File picture: Goran Tomasevic /Reuters

Fri, 23 Aug, 2024 - 15:30
Jack Power

  • Night of Power: The Betrayal of the Middle East 
  • Robert Fisk 
  • 4th Estate, €30

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