.Middle East


Crisis of Islam, The

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 In this book historian Bernard Lewis follows up on What Went Wrong (see separate review). Here Lewis attempts to explain why so many in the Islamic world are angry at the west, particularly the US, and why their anger comes...
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Resurrecting Empire

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 Rashid Khalidi wrote, in March 2003, an oped denouncing the neocons and Iraqi “exiles in expensive suits” who were advising Washington. Khalidi warned that America’s welcome in Baghdad would be brief. Learn the lessons of history, he urged: the British...
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What Went Wrong

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 Bernard Lewis is easily the most famous western scholar of the Middle East. And also – among other scholars – hugely controversial. In this book Lewis tries to explain “what went wrong” with Islamic civilization. Already this raises eyebrows –...
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