The Modern Middle East: A Political History since the First World War
by Mehran Kamrava
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Author: Mehran KamravaEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-01-31
ISBN: 0520241509
Number of pages: 510
Publisher: University of California Press
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Book Review: Basically a pop-history text
Summary: 3 Stars
First the writing style is easy to read and shifts time, place,and person reasonably well. But there is so much the author doesn't cover. The Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the Persian Gulf is what the author devotes most of his powers of deduction and induction on, making this way overpriced for its limited range of discourse. Someone new to Middle Eastern studies will benefit from this but not enough to be unable to answer the most basic questions about Jordan, Lebanon, Yemen (along with UAE is barely mentioned at all in the text.
I would recommend "The Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa" by David Long, over this book if a person is truly looking to get both scope and scale w/ their Middle Eastern text.
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