The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History

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Jonathan Dimbleby, broadcaster, author and historian [A] compelling blend of sweeping history and vivid memoir . You could find it a little depressing I suppose as I came out if it with a sadness for all the needless killing in the name of religion and I still don't have any answers to any of the issues, other than accepting other peoples beliefs and stop killing each other but it definitely gave me an insight I didn't have into many countries religions and histories and the interminable meddling by other countries which seems to make things even worse. BBC international editor Jeremy Bowen talks about his new book on the Middle East and about his life as a foreign correspondent including his most recent travels to the frontline in Ukraine. The author's skilled approach allowed me to understand the fundamental political, social, and economic factors that have shaped the region throughout the years. Here Provence suggests and goes on to demonstrate for the first time that British complicity remains strong in staging ‘the first coup in the modern history of the Arab world’ (p.

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Schwanitz, Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, Yale University Press, 2014". This is a wonderfully original book, a merciless reconstruction of the British and French mandates in the Middle East as local contemporaries would have experienced them. Every crisis that has ripped through this region in the ensuing decades, from the Yom Kippur War of 1973 to the ongoing intifada, is a direct consequence of those six days of fighting. Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Nazis and the Holocaust: The Origins, Nature and Aftereffects of Collaboration".Christ Church was silent except for the footfall of unseen persons around corners and the sounds of evensong creeping from behind closed doors. Holocaust scholar Jeffrey Herf excoriates the book, writing that Schwanitz and Rubin "ignore the previous scholarship on Holocaust decision-making as well as the existing scholarship on Husseini's collaboration with the Nazis. Yet it isn't if moderates on both sides are allowed to control the levers of power at the same time.

The Making of the Modern Middle East review: Solid guide to a

To mark the 100th anniversary of the Sykes-Picot Agreement, we’ve got a package with an explanatory article about the secret accord, an argument the accord still underlies the discontent in the Middle East (below) and the counter-view that its influence is overstated. The organization of the book follows the same trend, as the second half strikes the reader as rather nation-centric, with each section corresponding to Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, and Transjordan. All this played out as part of the larger Cold War, with Arab countries generally backed by the Soviet Union, and Israel supported by the United States. I thought this was a great overview of Six-Day War for someone like me who came into this topic knowing very little.The Israeli jets now swooped up sharply to as high as 9,000 feet, exposing themselves to Egyptian radar and sending Egyptian pilots out to the tarmac, scrambling.

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A stimulating and rewarding on-stage conversation; a lively informed and tolerant audience; privileged access to the great treasures of the Bodleian, and finally, wonderfully interesting dinner companions to help me conclude the best day I have enjoyed at any festival – anywhere. We encounter familiar figures that once dominated the territory (Rabin, Arafat, Gaddafi) and those that still do (Bashar al-Assad, Masoud Barzani, Hassan Nasrallah).to assemble the material necessary to support this argument, and to organize and present it in a coherent and persuasive way. It's not easy to lay out plainly the complex issues that makes the Middle East such a fraught region.