The Making of the Modern Middle East

Jeremy Bowen

ISBN 10: 103508399X / ISBN 13: 9781035083992

Edité par Macmillan, 2025

2025. Paperback. . . . . . N° de réf. du vendeur V9781035083992

Synopsis :

Now updated with a new chapter on the 7 October attacks and more.

A Sunday Times Paperback of the Year
A Spectator and New Statesman Book of the Year

‘An illuminating and riveting read’ – Jonathan Dimbleby
'Arresting . . . excellent, doom-freighted' – The Times

Jeremy Bowen, the International Editor of the BBC, has been covering the Middle East since 1989 and is uniquely placed to explain its complex past and its troubled present. In The Making of the Modern Middle East he offers a gripping and invaluable guide, showing how it came to be and what its future might hold.

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, and their leaders, whether brutal or benign. 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.

Clear throughout is Bowen’s deep understanding of the political, cultural and religious differences between countries as diverse as Erdogan’s Turkey, Netanyahu’s Israel and Palestine, whether Hamas-controlled Gaza or the West Bank. His long experience of covering events in the region make this an extraordinarily powerful account of one of the world's greatest problems.

À propos de l'auteur: Jeremy Bowen is the BBC’s International Editor. He reported first for the BBC from the Middle East in 1990. He was based in Jerusalem from 1995 to 2000 and was the BBC's Middle East Editor from 2005 to 2022. He has reported from more than ninety countries, covering more than twenty wars. They include all those in the Middle East since 1990, as well as those in Afghanistan, Chechnya, El Salvador, Somalia, Rwanda, former Yugoslavia and Ukraine. His books include Six Days, War Stories, The Arab Uprisings and The Making of the Modern Middle East. He lives in London.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : The Making of the Modern Middle East
Éditeur : Macmillan
Date d'édition : 2025
Reliure : Couverture souple
Etat : New