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

3.0

It's... EXTREMELY dry. It almost reads more like a reference book than a book for reading cover-to-cover. I appreciate the ridiculously wide range of places and times that it covers, and it does do a good job tracing out demographic and social changes in "broad strokes", but I'd recommend just picking some subset of periods in Arab history that you're interested in and buying books specifically about them over this book.