Muriel Mirak-Weissbach is an Armenian-American who grew up in New England. She has been a political journalist specialising in economic, political and cultural development in the Arab and Islamic world for thirty years. In late 2009, she published a book in Germany, entitled Through the Wall of Fire, Armenia - Iraq - Palestine: From Wrath to Reconciliation, (edition Fischer), which is a reflection on her family history and how that shaped her humanitarian and political work in Iraq and Palestine. The English edition is to be published by Ithaca Press in 2012.
One of the unfortunate realities is that at one time or another the United States of America has allied itself with dictators. This is especially true of the nations comprising the Middle East. That's one reason why "Madmen at the Helm: Pathology and Politics in the Arab Spring" is a particularly informed and informative book that deserves the widest possible readership in this country. Author and political journalist Muriel Mirak-Weissbach's 164 page compendium profiles key political leaders whose once iron-clad control of their respective countries finally lost their control (and sometimes their lives) in response to the revolt of their citizenry in what has been popularly termed the 'Arab Spring'. Also available in hard cover ($37.56) and Kindle ($8.99) editions, "Madmen at the Helm: Pathology and Politics in the Arab Spring" is insightful, astute, observant, and impressively knowledgeable, and should be considered mandatory reading for anyone seeking to understand the mind-sets of the leaders of these Middle Eastern countries whose sudden downfall was completely unexpected by most western observers in such places as the American state department and oil company headquarters.
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