Disordered World

<p><b>''Should be prescribed reading in the Foreign Office and on the foreign desk of newspapers and the BBC'' </b>ALLAN MASSIE<br><br><b>''P</b><b>erfectly placed and wonderfully qualified to shed light on the pervasive sense that there is a cataclysmic battle in progress between civilisations and systems of belief'' </b><i>OBSERVER</i><br><b>_________________</b><br>In this brilliant exploration of the post-9/11 world, leading Lebanese novelist and intellectual Amin Maalouf sets out to understand the urgent challenges the world faces today.<br><br>Instead of seeing the current disorder of the post-9/11 world as a ''clash of civilisations'', Maalouf sees it as the ''exhaustion of two civilisations'', a period in which humanity has reached its threshold of ''moral incompetence''.<br><br><i>Disordered World</i> is a plea by one of the major writers of our time for intelligence, tolerance and a sense of urgency in order that we develop a mature vision of our patrimony, our beliefs, our differences and the future of the planet which is our common home.</p>