he believes, the U.S. President will need to follow developments in this Arab nation with a watchful and wary eye. Silent Victims: Arab and Muslim Americans Post 9/11 For Stars and Stripes: American-Arabs in the U.S. Military The author of this book has been warning in his writings about authoritarian regimes in the region. Who could have imagined that Ben Ali the Tunisian dictator could have gone that way. Arab dictators have turned their countries into police states. In the West we imagined that these countries are oases of stability. Wrong. After reading this book, we never think the same of the Arab world. Actually, the Arab people are victims of their oppressive regimes. Some of these regimes are enjoying countless support from the West. Thirty years after the Khomeini revolution in Iran, we have not learnt the lessons yet. The Last Pharaoh: Mubarak and the Uncertain Future of Egypt in the Obama Age is a timely account of what is currently happing in Egypt and broader Middle East and predicted the fall of Mubarak's regime. The book also discusses the impact that the collapse of Mubarak's regime and its aftermath will have on the world and American interest in the region. The book chronicles Egypt's history and provides an historic description of events shaping the Middle East, which readers will also find to be well documented and researched by author Aladdin Elaasar -- a teacher of Mid-Eastern studies. The easy to read narrative makes it an important book about