A review by ashkitty93
A History of the Arab Peoples by Albert Hourani

informative slow-paced

5.0

A bit dry in the beginning and Hourani, at least to me, does an excellent job of being impartial throughout. Yet even with his delicate touch, by chapter 19 it’s clear that Israel’s presence in SWANA is the primary destabilizing force. Overall an excellent look at the entire region, from Turkey (and its eventual shift in a more western/European direction) to Iran and Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Palestine, into the Sinai Peninsula, and across North Africa.