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This book is strongly recommended to anybody who wants to know more about the region and its history than can be fit into a second sound bite on the evening news. It is a rare achievement that combines erudition, compelling writing, and personal experience.
It brings together medieval, modern, and contemporary Middle East history beautifully in a book of exceptional clarity and depth. Humphreys is nonjudgmental yet candid, focused yet comprehensive. His integration of early Islamic and contemporary history is novel, bold, and successful.
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About the Book Middle Easterners today struggle to find solutions to crises of economic stagnation, political gridlock, and cultural identity. About the Author R.
In Between Memory and Desire, he poses incisive questions, elaborates convincing arguments and does not shy from tackling the prickliest of topics. Similarly, the section on Egypt contains perceptive comments on Nasser's and Sadat's personalities and leadership styles, but it suffers from misleading statements that might have applied back in the mids but have long since been overtaken by events. For instance, Humphreys seems to ignore the authoritarian turn of Egyptian politics during the s when he states that "Mubarak has tried to deal with these matters by opening up the political system, by restoring a degree of democratic challenge and conflict, and thereby finding his way to a broad consensus" p.
The section on Israel-Palestine falls short of offering even a cursory overview of the Oslo peace process -- from how it came about to the problems that Book Reviews. Author: Guilain P.
Date: Mar. From: Middle East Policy Vol. Document Type: Book review.
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