Foreword
Part One: Imperialism and Nationalism
Chapter 1 – The Muslim World after the Fall of the Ottoman Empire
Chapter 2 – Nasser and the Corruption of Civic Arab Nationalism
Chapter 3 – Ba’athism and Ethnic Arab Nationalism
Chapter 4 – The Kurdish Question
Part Two: Imperialism and Islamism
Chapter 5 – Imperialism and the Islamist Cold War between Saudi Arabia and Iran
Chapter 6 – The 21st Century Imperialist Assault on the Middle East
Chapter 7 – Islamism, Wahhabism, and Daesh
Part Three: A Left-Wing Alternative
Chapter 8 – The Left-Wing Divided on the Syrian Civil War
Chapter 9 – The Renewal of the PKK in Turkey
Chapter 10 – The Example of Rojava
Chapter 11 – Rojava, Daesh, and the Battle for Humanity
Chapter 12 – The Five-Way Battle for Kobanî
Epilogue