The extraordinary story of the Arab world, from defeat and colonization to independence and astonishing wealth.
Eugene Rogan is author of the bestselling The Fall of the Ottomans- The Great War in the Middle East, 1914-1920. He is professor of modern Middle Eastern history at the University of Oxford and Director of the Middle East Centre, St Antony's College, Oxford.
It is a fascinating [story], and exceedingly well told.
*Economist*
engrossing and capacious... compulsively readable
*Guardian*
Rogan gives a lucid account of political developments throughout
the Arab lands... One of the special features of this book is that
it draws on Arab writings (by memoirists, journalists and others)
to give an idea of how the Arabs have experienced their own
history
*Sunday Telegraph*
Anyone who seeks to understand why the Islamic world bears a grudge
against the West should read The Arabs. Few scholars know their
subject better than Eugene Rogan, while even fewer are capable of
rendering so complex a subject so engagingly readable. It is a joy
to open, and a deprivation to put down.
*Sir Alistair Horne, author of A Savage War of Peace*
A rich, galloping narrative that spans the Arab
world...outstanding, gripping and exuberant...full of flamboyant
character sketches, witty asides and magisterial scholarship, that
explains much of what we need to know about the world today
*Financial Times*
With eloquence, verve, and understanding, Eugene Rogan rightly
reminds us that the world, and the Arabs themselves, need to
remember the past. If we are to build a better relationship between
the Arab world and the West, if we are to avoid making the same
mistakes again and again, we need to know Arab history from its
many high points to its low ones. I can think of no better guide on
this crucially important journey than The Arabs.
*Margaret Macmillan, author of Paris 1919 and Nixon and Mao*
The masterly management of the material goes along with plain
English, free of academic jargon.
*Asian Affairs*
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