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217x135mm, 176 pages, Hardback
ISBN: 978-1-914325-34-2
Price: £25.00
Forthcoming: March 2025

(note this was earlier announced under a different title: Levantine Windstorms)
WAR ZONE
A Personal Journey through a Ravaged Region
Ghayth Armanazi
with a foreword by Jeremy Bowen
​An invaluable personal account of the emergence of the modern Middle East to what we see today.
Sixty years of tumultuous events that shook and shaped today’s Middle East, related here as the backdrop to a personal life journey.
Written by a former diplomat, writer and commentator, often with front line experience of momentous events, Levantine Windstorms captures some of the spirit, motivation, euphoria and despair of the Arab generation that emerged following the second world war.

What the critics said about Armanazi's last book, The Story of Syria:

"Armanazi, whose ancestors took part in the struggle for independence and civilian governance, provides a brief and reliable account of Syria from Neolithic times to the present. His writing helps to explain how the country went from the optimism of 1920, when it established an independent monarchy for a few months, to 2011, when the country devoured itself in fratricidal bloodletting encouraged and financed by outsiders.
Charles Glass on The Intercept

"Armanazi uses his position of particular privilege to provide not just an interesting collection of early photos − one of which shows Syrian women demonstrating in the 1950s − but a surprisingly candid account of how his country became ‘Assad’s Syria’....He unravels the unique Hafez al-Assad methodology, essential to understanding how the Syrian state has survived nearly seven years of war."
Diana Darke - Chatham House review
By the same author
The Story of Syria
About the Author
Ghayth Armanazi is a former Syrian diplomat who served as Ambassador of the League of Arab States to the United Kingdom in the years  from 1992 to 2000. He previously also served in London as Political  Attaché to the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates, and in the 80s as General Manager of the Arab Bankers Association,  based in London.

In addition he was the Editor-in Chief of  the quarterly Journal ‘Arab Affairs’ which was published by the Arab League in the years 1986-91. During all these years and beyond he regularly wrote and commentated on current Arab affairs in the press and broadcast media, being called upon especially during the outbreak of the ‘Arab Spring’. Most recently he has been devoting his time to authorship, producing, in addition to this work,  a book on Syrian history  entitled ‘Story of Syria’ now in its second edition.
He studied  at the American University of Beirut and the University of Colorado, and obtained  a post-graduate degree from London University, School of Oriental and African Studies.