From the First World War to the Arab Spring: What's Really Going On in the Middle East? (Middle East Today)

McMillan, M. E.

ISBN 10: 1137522011 / ISBN 13: 9781137522016

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2015

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x, 279 pages ; 22 cm. Summary:"Offering a comprehensive, up-to-date examination of the complex web of wars and proxy wars, revolutions and counter-revolutions that are ripping the Middle East apart, this book puts these events in their historical context and leads readers through the labyrinth that is the new Middle East. This book seeks answers to pressing, contentious questions: why are there so many hereditary heads of state in the Middle East when the Prophet Muhammad did not appoint a successor? Why do Western countries claim to want democracy in the Middle East yet support dictators? Why did Israel become a democracy while the Arab states did not? Why are there so many wars in the Middle East? And, most importantly, what happened to the hope and optimism of the Arab Spring? M.E. McMillan offers fresh answers to these difficult questions. Firmly grounded in both historical research and insightful analysis of current events, this book gives readers a new understanding of what's really going on in the Middle East"-- Provided by publisher.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: From the First World War to the Arab Spring: What's Really Going On in the Middle East? (Middle East Today)
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1137522011
• ISBN 13: 9781137522016
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Middle East

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Synopsis

Offering a comprehensive, up-to-date examination of the complex web of wars and proxy wars, revolutions and counter-revolutions that are ripping the Middle East apart, this book puts these events in their historical context and leads readers through the labyrinth that is the new Middle East.  This book seeks answers to pressing, contentious questions.  Why are there so many hereditary heads of state in the Middle East when the Prophet Muhammad did not appoint a successor?  Why do Western countries claim to want democracy in the Middle East, yet support dictators?  Why did Israel become a democracy while the Arab states did not?  Why are there so many wars in the Middle East?  And, most importantly, what happened to the hope and optimism of the Arab Spring?  M.E. McMillan offers fresh answers to these difficult questions.  Firmly grounded in historical research and insightful analysis of current events, this book gives readers a new understandingof what’s really going on in the Middle East.

About the Author

M. E. McMillan is author of Fathers and Sons: The Rise and Fall of Political Dynasty in the Middle East and the acclaimed The Meaning of Mecca: The Politics of Pilgrimage in Early Islam. She has worked as a translator for the United Nations in New York and Geneva.