Reviews for Landscapes of War: From Sarajevo to Chechnya

The average rating for Landscapes of War: From Sarajevo to Chechnya based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-02-02 00:00:00 Curtis Haley An important book on the comparatives of Islam and the Western ideology. The four parts of the book focuses on the Bosnian Civil War, war in Algeria, war in Chechnya, and the violence in the Palestinian territories. Juan Goytisolo argues how conflict in these parts of the world stem from the ideological overall picture of Islam and the West, particularly with political and cultural. An informative book on four geographical areas plagues by inter-ethnic and religious violence. Great for a class on modern international affairs or to open you up to the world around us.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-10-27 00:00:00 John Dayton This is an antipode of Kapuściński. The Polish master found poetry in the ruins of the human condition. Goytisolo builds brick and mortar monuments chieseled with proing questions. This collection of dispatches scans a series of eruptions in the 1990s all concerning Muslims: Bosnia, Occupied Palestine, Algeria and Chechnya. The Sarajevo section is the most emotional, the least constructed. Goytisolo concludes the survey with a challenging parallel; he diagnoses the misteps Spain undertook in the 15tth through 19th Centuries. He then compares this to a recent history of North Africa and the Middle east. Despite being published in book form in 2000, the insights are rather precisent, especially given the events in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and Syria.