The reality that will shape the future of the middle east is not the debates over democracy or globalisation that the iraq war was supposed to have jump started but the conflicts between shias and sunnis that it precipitated in time we will see this as a central legacy of the iraq war p 250. The shia revival how conflicts within islam will shape the future by vali nasr ww norton company 2006 304 pages isbn 0393062112 2595 in an op ed piece published in the new york times on october 17 2006 jeff stein asked a number of senior government officials if they knew the difference between sunni and shia islam. The shia revival how conflicts within islam will shape the future by vali nasr introduction authors premise as war democracy and globalization force the middle east to open itself up to a number of long resisted forms of change conflicts such as the shia sunni rift will become both more frequent and more intense before the middle east can arrive at democracy and prosperity it will . Start by marking the shia revival how conflicts within islam will shape the future as want to read start your review of the shia revival how conflicts within islam will shape the future write a review jul 26 2011 julian haigh added it review of another edition this is obviously from the shia perspective but in my limited knowledge opinion which id argue we all speak from . The shia revival the shia revival how conflicts within islam will shape the future vali nasr joanne j myers october 18 2006 introduction remarks questions and answers introduction joanne myers good morning im joanne myers director of public affairs programs and on behalf of the carnegie council id like to welcome our members and