The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History

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Useful in providing plenty of background information to understand how we are where we are in this war torn part of the world. Camouflaged Iranian soldiers in 2015 at the annual military parade marking the begging of the 1980 war with Iraq: Bowen often questions risks for the sake of a story and the ethics of reporting from a dictatorship. Educated under the watchful eyes of influential German officers such as Colmar von der Goltz, and infused with his notions of militarized nations, it was this last Ottoman generation that posed as ‘the saviour of the Ottoman nation’ in a series of wars that wrecked the empire from 1911 to 1918.

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Mia Lee contends that the book's "focus on the Mufti also creates a false link between contemporary anti-Semitism in the Middle East and the Nazis’ racial programme. Even Israel which in many ways has created a genuinely democratic society has done so by crushing Palestinians. One of the most striking similarities, according to the authors, is that all three ideologies promote extreme antisemitism and blame Jews for all the problems in the world. However, as one of the authors Schwanitz responded to Mikics, that he misrepresents the book and argues it "is not a biography of the grand mufti of Jerusalem Amin al-Husaini [. Land Tenure in 17th-Century Palestine: The Evidence from the Fatâwâ al-Khairiyya,” in Khalidi, Tarif (ed.Israel is in Iran's backyard, and faces a clear and direct threat from Iranian proxies such as Hezbollah and Hamas. The victors of the war, namely Britain and France, had made plans to partition the Ottoman territories, but it proved to be a rather complicated business to reconcile a variety of promises they had made to different parties and reach a post-war settlement.

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Oren (Hebrew: מיכאל אורן; born Michael Scott Bornstein on May 20, 1955) is an American-born Israeli historian, author, politician, former ambassador to the United States (2009–2013), and current member of the Knesset for the Kulanu party and the Deputy Minister for Diplomacy in the Prime Minister's Office. He left frontline work for a period after his car came under fire from Israel Defence Forces in Lebanon in 2000 resulting in the death of two colleagues. The Oxford Literary Festival was a special opportunity for me and certainly one of the highlights of my career – it was an honour I will never forget.Schwanitz, Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, Yale University Press, 2014". Obviously, the peoples of the Middle East, their memories, and their grievances go back fully thousands of years.