Summary Of Rashid Khalidi's Resurrecting Empire

Rashid Khalidi wrote “Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Past in the Middle East” to talk about what he believes the reasons of the Bush administration invasion and seizing of Iraq were. This is an important book for Americans, especially those who aren’t really aware of the past, or ignore it. Khalidi brings up information that people are too scared to talk about. Khalidi talks about certain events that people know and then points out the wrong in these events that most people don’t really see. These topics are the ones that Khalidi believes Americans are less knowledged about during their lifetime and growing up. Khalidi bases this book off his own life experiences and the life experiences of other people. He uses his knowledge to get a lot of facts and main points across to the reader. He uses studies that he has seen …show more content…
The information he acknowledges is put in a logical way, but the main topics are still the main thing being focused on. For example, in chapter three when he talked about the British exploitation of Iraq and Kuwaiti oil and the American exploitation of Saudi oil, but he still focused primarily on the expanse of Iran. Khalidi also never leaves any gaps in his information; he continuously gives out new information. He always gave new questions along with new answers. Like I said earlier, I think the book is for Americans who don't have much knowledge, or ignore, the past, meaning that the book is probably for any average reader, but for me personally I would say the book is for someone who has a very wide background with this type of subject. For example, one would have to have some form of knowledge on the Middle East and the western intervention with Middle East politics for just the first chapter. Likewise, if the book was intended for readers with a wide background knowledge on this subject, then yes the language Khalidi used was