The making of the modern Middle East : a personal history / Jeremy Bowen.
By: Bowen, Jeremy [author.]
Publisher: London : Picador, 2023Description: xiii, 351 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, photographs (colour), map (black and white)Content type: text | still image | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781509890934Subject(s): Middle East -- History -- 20th century | Middle East -- History -- 21st century | Middle East -- Politics and government -- 20th century | Middle East -- Politics and government -- 21st centuryDDC classification: 956.04 Summary: "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. Here, Bowen offers readers a gripping and invaluable guide to the modern Middle East, how it came to be and what its future might hold. 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. Clear throughout is Bowen's deep understanding of the political, cultural and religious differences between countries as diverse as Erdogan’s Turkey, Assad’s Syria, Netanyahu’s Israel and Palestine, whether Hamas-controlled Gaza or the West Bank, and his long experience of covering events in the region."-- Taken from the publishers' website, accessed 18 October 2023. https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/jeremy-bowen/the-making-of-the-modern-middle-east/9781509890934
| Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 956.04 BOW (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 022619 |
Originally published: 2022.
"This edition first published 2023 by Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan", from t.p. verso.
"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. Here, Bowen offers readers a gripping and invaluable guide to the modern Middle East, how it came to be and what its future might hold. 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. Clear throughout is Bowen's deep understanding of the political, cultural and religious differences between countries as diverse as Erdogan’s Turkey, Assad’s Syria, Netanyahu’s Israel and Palestine, whether Hamas-controlled Gaza or the West Bank, and his long experience of covering events in the region."-- Taken from the publishers' website, accessed 18 October 2023.
https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/jeremy-bowen/the-making-of-the-modern-middle-east/9781509890934