The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History

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Examining a series of spatial and temporal transformations taking place in the Middle East over the course of the long nineteenth century, it interrogates the very nature of the ‘colonial. These efforts were led on the German side by about 100 key officials, politicians and Middle Eastern experts, and on the other side Islamists and nationalists that drove ahead their joint jihadization of Islamism. Saudi and Russia in Yemen and Syria waged far more brutal wars than did the US in any war since Vietnam. Despite declaring the use of chemical weapons to be a “red line”, Obama did not carry out his threat of repercussions when Assad gassed around 1,400 people in a Damascus neighbourhood in 2013 – after David Cameron failed to gain UK parliamentary support for military action.

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A brilliant new history that captures the Ottoman foundations of the modern Middle East in the decades between the First and Second World Wars. The world rallied around the US, with Nato invoking Article 5 for the first time in its history: “An attack on one is an attack on all. It's not easy to lay out plainly the complex issues that makes the Middle East such a fraught region. An excellent recent history of the middle east, and a good introduction to the politics of the place targeted at those who want something at slightly deeper level than entry. I leave it to colleagues studying the durability of Unionist affiliations to tease out these threads.The agreement, then, helped frame the contours of modern nation states in a region where before there had been none. These conflicting promises remained at the heart of the impasse between two distinct nationalist groups in Mandate Palestine: the Zionists and the Arabs, later to be renamed Israelis and Palestinians.

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After the eponymous time-period ended, the lines on the Middle Eastern map were redrawn in ways that charted the future of the region, and impact the world still today. It’s a heart-wrenching read; it matters little if you have followed affairs in the Middle East for years, somewhat inured to the train of tragedies intertwined with this fascinating part of the world. Here Provence suggests and goes on to demonstrate for the first time that British complicity remains strong in staging ‘the first coup in the modern history of the Arab world’ (p. Instead of focusing on one individual, however, Provence undertakes a study of a generation: the Ottoman military and civilian elites who were born in the 1880s and 1890s, and who received education from a range of prestigious imperial schools that instilled in them a sense of belonging to the empire as well as a commitment to preserve it in the high age of imperialism.org questions whether the book contributes anything of value due to its ideological biases, "highly problematic theses," and "bizarre theories. In doing so, Provence emphasises the continuity between the late Ottoman and Colonial era, explaining how national identities emerged, and how the seeds were sown for many of the conflicts which have defined the Middle East in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. is that, at the end of the day, the author puts most of the blame for the Middle East’s problems on outside forces.