Arab World and Western Intelligence

Dina Rezk is Lecturer in Middle Eastern History at the University of Reading. She received her Ph.D from the University of Cambridge in 2013, where she also completed her undergraduate degree, and subsequently spent two years at the Politics Department in Warwick University in September as a Teaching Fellow in Intelligence and Security.

• IntroductionOrientalism and AnalysisFormation of the United Arab RepublicRevolution in IraqSyrian SecessionYemeni Civil WarThe Six-Day WarThe War of AttritionFirst Impressions of SadatThe Yom Kippur WarThe Aftermath of VictoryConclusion

Dina Rezk’s book is an interesting and important study that presents the manner in which Egyptian presidents Nasser and Sadat were read in the West, based upon archival material recently declassified and opened for the scholars’ eyes.