The Middle East for Dummies
by Jr. Davis Craig
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Author: Jr. Davis CraigEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-07-01
ISBN: 0764554832
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: For Dummies
Book Reviews of The Middle East for Dummies
Book Review: Difficult!
Summary: 4 Stars
For someone who is as poorly informed as me, I can see that there is a lot that is valuable inside this book, but gosh, about halfway through, it just got overwhelming.
SO MUCH is unfamiliar, I might as well be reading about life on another planet.
Making it thru all the difficult names and locations (whose names are always changing) and geography and passions and movements and goals and perspectives and history is HARD!
Not to mention the fact that there is constantly so much violence and I have very, very little understanding of the social and political structures around which these many, many events take place.
Before I finished, I looked for a CHILDREN'S BOOK to start me off with a more BASIC understanding of day-to-day life in the Middle East.
So far, I've been very disappointed to discover that there really aren't any.
I'm sure that's going to change, one day.
Meanwhile, I'll retain this book as a reference and maybe I'll go back and try to re-read some of it again.
And yes, it did explain some things that I really didn't understand at all. But I can only barely remember what they are, at the moment.
It's a good book by a knowlegeable author but I'm (hopefully) looking forward to an even better (and SIMPLER) one.
(sometimes 'dummies' really are 'dummies', y'know)
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