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The making of the modern Middle East : a personal history / Jeremy Bowen.

By: Bowen, Jeremy, 1960- [author.]Description: xiii, 351 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), map ; 24 cmISBN: 9781509890934Subject(s): Bowen, Jeremy, 1960- -- Travel | Middle East -- HistoryAdditional physical formats: Ebook version :: No titleDDC classification: 956 LOC classification: DS63.123 | .B69 2022
Contents:
Watch and learn -- Mission impassable -- All flesh is grass -- Jerusalem : God, power, possession and loss -- Guns and olives -- Tell them he's dead -- Death on the Nile -- Gaza -- The final frontier -- In the name of God -- Ground zero -- Mission unaccomplished -- One thousand Saddams -- The people want the fall of the regime -- The road to Damascus -- The mosque on Makram Ebeid Street -- Thepivot of war -- The road to hell -- The Russians are coming -- Scorched earth -- The tast of fire and smoke -- Retreat to the mountains -- The last dance -- Deal of the century -- Pawns on the global chessboard.
Summary: In The Making of the Modern Middle East - in part based on his acclaimed podcast, 'Our Man in the Middle East' - 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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Watch and learn -- Mission impassable -- All flesh is grass -- Jerusalem : God, power, possession and loss -- Guns and olives -- Tell them he's dead -- Death on the Nile -- Gaza -- The final frontier -- In the name of God -- Ground zero -- Mission unaccomplished -- One thousand Saddams -- The people want the fall of the regime -- The road to Damascus -- The mosque on Makram Ebeid Street -- Thepivot of war -- The road to hell -- The Russians are coming -- Scorched earth -- The tast of fire and smoke -- Retreat to the mountains -- The last dance -- Deal of the century -- Pawns on the global chessboard.

In The Making of the Modern Middle East - in part based on his acclaimed podcast, 'Our Man in the Middle East' - 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.