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The Making of the Modern Middle East

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Middle East Centre Booktalk
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A vivid and authoritative account of the making of the modern Middle East, from the BBC’s long-serving correspondent in the region.
Jeremy Bowen, the BBC’s International Editor (former Middle East Editor), has been covering the region since 1989 and is uniquely placed to explain its complex past and its troubled present.
In this new book, in part based on his acclaimed podcast, Bowen takes us on a journey across the Middle East and through its history. He meets ordinary men and women on the front line, their leaders, whether brutal or benign, and he explores the power games that have so often wreaked devastation on civilian populations as those leaders, whatever their motives, jostle for political, religious and economic control.
With his deep understanding of the political, cultural and religious differences between countries as diverse as Erdogan's Turkey, Assad's Syria and Netanyahu's Israel and his long experience of covering events in the region, Bowen offers readers a gripping and invaluable guide to the modern Middle East, how it came to be and what its future might hold.

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Middle East Centre Booktalk
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Jeremy Bowen
Eugene Rogan
Keywords
modern middle eastern studies
middle east
Department: Middle East Centre
Date Added: 23/11/2022
Duration: 00:35:42

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