Dr. Mamoon Amin Zaki has direct experience with key moments in many Middle Eastern countries. He witnessed the impact that Ataturk has on the monarchical system in Iraq and Turkey and lived through the overwhelming socialist influence of Jamal Abdul Nasser. Furthermore, Zaki was in the Middle East when the Khomeini revolution occurred and established the first modern theocratic system in the region. With this insider knowledge informing his original analysis, Zaki speaks to political decision-makers and students of the Middle East in The Dialectical Conflict of Religious and Secular Ideologies in the Middle East: A Philosophical and Historical Analysis. In exciting, hopeful contrast to Samuel Huntington's Clash of Civilization, The Dialectical Conflict espouses the role of leadership in reconciling ideologies and possible achievement of peace and stability in one of the world's most important regions.