Best of Enemies: 1953-1984: Self Made Hero

Jean-Pierre Filiu is a world-renowned expert on the Middle East and the author of Mitterrand and Palestine, The Apocalypse in Islam, The Boundaries of Islam, and The Nine Lives of Al Qaeda. He is Professor of Middle East Studies at Sciences Po, Paris School of International Affairs, and a regular guest lecturer at Harvard and MIT. David B. is a founding member of the independent publisher L'Association and one of the world's most revered graphic novelists. His bestselling autobiographical work Epileptic is considered a masterpiece of the comics medium. His books have won Eisner and Ignatz awards, as well as major prizes at Angouleme.

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In the third volume of their graphic history of US and Middle East relations, Jean-Pierre Filiu and David B. cover the tumultuous period that began with Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990 and ended with Obama's decision, in 2013, not to intervene in Syria. Taking in the First Gulf War, the rise of al-Qaeda, the military response to the September 11 attacks and the present conflict in Syria, Best of Enemies: Part Three is propelled by a clash between four US presidents and their Middle Eastern antagonists: on the one hand, George H.

W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama; on the other, Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden and Bashar al-Assad.

Covering thirty years of conflict and diplomacy, Best of Enemies: Part Three is a breezy and engaging guide to the events that shaped our current politics, from the rise of populism and the so-called Islamic State to the global refugee crisis.