A Brief History of the Middle East by Christopher Catherwood
“To persuade the people to hate a foreign enemy is a good way of preventing them from realizing how freedom is crushed at home.”
Christopher Catherwood
Catherwood provides a good amount of history and his discussion that a proper understanding of the Middle East’s last few thousands of years is necessary to understand today’s Middle East rings true. He provides an outlined, sequential history in the very back for a quick reference. And he additionally discusses historians’ opposing views of certain historical events.
“The events of thousands of years ago continue to resonate powerfully today; for the rest of us this is just ancient history, but for the inhabitants of the Middle East it could have happened last week.”
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