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Venice, 1522. Intelligence arrives from the east confirming Europe's greatest fear: the vastly rich Ottoman Sultan has all he needs to wage total war - and his sights are set on Rome. With Christendom divided, Suleyman the Magnificent has his hand on its throat. From the palaces of Istanbul to the blood-soaked fields of central Europe and the scorched coasts of north Africa, The Lion House pioneers a bold new style of eye-witness history to te...

If you want to know about aviation and climate change, this is the book for you: de Bellaigue explores the new technologies that could help make flying green.Accessibly written: An experienced historian and journalist, de Bellaigue is able to present complex ideas in an engaging and highly readable narrative.Based on first-hand reporting: Meet the innovators around the world who are revolutionizing the industry.

Venice, 1522. Intelligence arrives from the east confirming Europe's greatest fear: the vastly rich Ottoman Sultan has all he needs to wage total war - and his sights are set on Rome. With Christendom divided, Suleyman the Magnificent has his hand on its entrails.From the palaces of Istanbul to the blood-soaked fields of central Europe and the scorched coasts of north Africa, The Lion House pioneers a bold new style of eye-witness history to t...

Venice, 1522. Intelligence arrives from the east confirming Europe's greatest fear: the vastly rich Ottoman Sultan has all he needs to wage total war - and his sights are set on Rome. With Christendom divided, Suleyman the Magnificent has his hand on its entrails. From the palaces of Istanbul to the blood-soaked fields of central Europe and the scorched coasts of north Africa, The Lion House pioneers a bold new style of eye-witness history to ...

»Erhellend, großartig geschrieben, ein Buch, das uns hilft, das Verhältnis zwischen islamischer Welt und Moderne zu verstehen.« Yuval Noah Harari, Autor von »Eine kurze Geschichte der Menschheit« Die islamische Aufklärung hat längst stattgefunden. In einer fulminanten Erzählung demontiert Christopher de Bellaigue die oft selbstgefällige westliche Sicht auf die arabische Welt. Auch in Ägypten, im Iran und der Türkei gab es nach 1800 eine bre...

In this "stylishly written, surprisingly moving chronicle" (Harper's), Christopher de Bellaigue presents an absorbing account of the political and social reformations that transformed the lands of Islam in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. "The best sort of book for our disordered days" (Pankaj Mishra), The Islamic Enlightenment "is at once new, fascinating and extraordinarily important" (Wall Street Journal) as it challenges ossified pe...

Christopher de Bellaigue was born in London in 1971, and was educated at Cambridge University, where he read Iranian and Indian Studies. Between 1995 and 2007, he lived and worked as a journalist in south Asia and the Middle East, writing for The Economist, Guardian and the New York Review of Books. He is the award-winning author of four books and has made several BBC television and radio programmes. He lives in London.

This book changes everything we thought we knew about the Islamic world.

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On 19 August 1953 the British and American intelligence agencies launched a desperate coup against a cussed, bedridden 72-year-old. Above all, the life of Muhammad Mossadegh is a warning to today's occupants of Downing Street and the White House, as they commit us all to intervention in a volatile and unpredictable region.

On August 19, 1953, the American and British intelligence agencies launched a desperate coup in Iran against Muhammad Mossadegh, a bedridden seventy-two-year-old man. His crimes had been to flirt with communism and to nationalize his country's oil industry, which for forty years had been in British hands. But the countries that overthrew Mossadegh would, in time, deeply regret siding with his great foe, Shah Muhammad-Reza Pahlavi. Mossadegh wa...

In this superbly crafted and thoughtful book, de Bellaigue probes the human wreckage of the world's last great revolution. The result is a subtly intense revelation of the hearts and minds of the Iranian people, and what it is like to live among them.

Since the late 1990s, Christopher de Bellaigue has been reporting from Iran for The New York Review and other magazines. This collection of his essays and reviews traces the country's political upheavals during that period, from the failures of the reformist efforts led by former President Muhammad Khatami to the hard-line Islamist ideology of current President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and profiles the ongoing role of the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah...

Türkler, ülkelerinin bu kisminin modern tarihi hakkinda sasirticiderecede az yazdilar. Cünkü 19. yüzyilin sonlarindan bu yana gecendönem tarih olarak degil, siyaset olarak görülüyor ve biraz akliolan herkes siyasetten uzak duruyor. Yakin gecmisi kesfetmekistiyorsaniz bunu onlarin kitaplariyla dolu bir kütüphanede yapmayin, yoksa olanlar hakkinda epey tuhaf bir fikre sahip olursunuz. Disaricikin, acik havaya.Türkiyeye 1995te muhabir olarak gele...

With majestic prose, Christopher de Bellaigue presents an absorbing account of the political and social reformations that transformed the lands of Islam in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Flying in the face of everything we thought we knew, The Islamic Enlightenment becomes an astonishing and revelatory history that offers a game-changing assessment of the Middle East since the Napoleonic Wars. Beginning his account in 1798, de B...

A finely written, brave, and very personal book." -Orhan Pamuk In 2001, Christopher de Bellaigue wrote a story for The New York Review of Books, in which he briefly discussed the killing and deportation of half a million Armenians from Turkey in 1915. These massacres, he suggested, were best understood as part of the struggles that attended the end of the Ottoman Empire. Upon publication, the Review was besieged with letters asserting that thi...