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'An important and authoritative reconstruction by one of the most talented stables of historians and experts ever assembled. The Yom Kippur War is highly relevant today, as the world faces a new era of upheaval with the potential for war in the Middle East. This comprehensive volume will help a new generation of readers - scholarly and otherwise - puzzle through the lessons learned from the region's most violent clash between Arabs and Israelis.' * Patrick Tyler, author of A World of Trouble: The White House and the Middle East from the Cold War to the War on Terror and Fortress Israel: The Inside Story of the Military Elite Who Run the Country and Why They Can't Make Peace * 'Finally, forty years after the October 1973 War, a comprehensive, 360-degree analysis of a seminal moment in the long-running dispute between Israel and her Arab neighbours. By looking at the war from every perspective, not only from Tel Aviv, Cairo, Damascus and Amman, but from Washington, Moscow, and Europe, the whole picture comes into focus. In the process, it shows those of us who covered the war, how little we knew and understood at the time.' * Terence Smith, Israel correspondent for The New York Times during the Yom Kippur War *

'The so-called great divide between an African modernism and continuing traditions of art-making still perplexes and unsettles many. Kumasi Realism is a substantial contribution to the debate, all the more so for being written by one of Ghana's leading practitioners; an artist of international standing, but whose focus here is firmly on the local. Atta Kwami is able to offer a detailed and comparative analysis of artistic production in Kumasi, while at the same time producing a substantial historical review of the ways in which visual culture developed along various paths to produce, an evolving local visual modernity. This is an important, generous and beautiful book.' - Will Rea, Senior Lecturer in African Art History, University of Leeds 'Kumasi Realism offers an invaluable look at the interconnected art worlds of the academy and the commercial street. Through thick description, Kwami encourages a more capacious view of visual modernity, highlighting linkages between painting, photography, advertising, graphic design, and art history and challenging stale distinctions between high and low, academic and folk, tradition and innovation.' - Elizabeth Harney, Associate Professor in the Department of Art, University of Toronto and former curator of Modern and Contemporary African Art, Smithsonian Institution

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Asaf Siniver is Senior Lecturer in International Security in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham. His research interests include conflict resolution, international mediation and the Arab-Israeli conflict, and his work has appeared in various academic journals. He is the author of Nixon, Kissinger and US Foreign Policy: The Machinery of Crisis and the editor of International Terrorism post- 9/11: Comparative Dynamics and Responses. He is a Leverhulme Research Fellow (2011-13) and Associate Editor of the journal Civil Wars.

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