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This much needed new edition provides a complete and essential guide to this fast developing, ever changing and often tense region. This book, fully updated for 2024, examines the origins and development of the events which have dominated the headlines for the last seven decades. Covering everything from religion and politics in the aftermath of the Second World War to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, terrorism, war in Iraq and Syria and the extraordinary economic growth of the Gulf states, it will change the way you think about the region and provide balance and clarity.
Contents
: The crossroads of the world
: States and mandates: Middle Eastern politics to the end of World War II
: The promised land
: Gamal Abdul Nasser
: War to war
: Divisions and developments 1967-73
: Lebanon bleeds
: Camp David
: Revolution and war
: Intifada
: Desert Storm
: The 1990s: searching for settlement
: Regime change
: Regional reaction
: Sharon and the roadmap