A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISIS

In 2011, a wave of revolution spread through the Middle East as protesters demanded an end to tyranny, corruption, and economic decay. From Egypt to Yemen, a generation of young Arabs insisted on a new ethos of common citizenship.

A Rage for Order is the first work of literary journalism to track the tormented legacy of what was once called the Arab Spring.Combining dramatic storytelling with an original analysis of the Arab world today, A Rage for Order captures the psychic and actual civil wars raging throughout the Middle East, and explains how the dream of an Arab renaissance gave way to a new age of discord