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Visions of a new, europelike region peaceful, prosperous, democratic will not be realized. Bbcs former middle east bureau chief paul danahars the new middle east puts that question in the readers head, although it didnt see the turning of the tide in favour of bashar alassad. Its a history of oil on all continents, not just the middle east. For the rest of us, its defined by much more than that. Predicting the middle east is never a wise thing to do, even for one who has lived there and witnessed much of the arab spring firsthand. Saudi arabia, iran, and the fortyyear rivalry that unraveled culture, religion, and collective memory in the middle east. On the whole, though, the new middle east contains little to surprise an. Very readable and insightfilled, the new middle east. The greater middle east, also known as mena middle east and north africa or menap middle east, north africa, afghanistan, and pakistan, is a political term, introduced in the early 2000s, denoting a set of contiguously connected countries stretching from the maghreb region in the west all the way to pakistan in south asia. He divides his book into sections devoted to such hotspots as egypt, libya, syria and iraq, as. Cambridge core middle east studies the new middle east edited by fawaz a. The new middle east is one of the first comprehensive books written by prominent scholars of the region and of comparative politics to critically. A bbc journalist makes a cogent prognosis for the postrevolutionary arab world.
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