Middle East Studies

This is the first book to provide a clear, accessible, ...

(London Bangla)

 

This is the first book to provide a clear, accessible, and annotated introduction that covers the full history of the region. ... It offers a comprehensive yet lucid rendering of the conflict, setting it in its proper historical context. Harms and Ferry show how today's violence is very much a product of recent history, with its roots in the twentieth century.

(London Bangla)

 

This superior and remarkably thorough, if brief, study of the ...

(Choice)

 

This superior and remarkably thorough, if brief, study of the Holy Land enigma is strongly recommended as an introduction.

(Choice)

 

A tour de force in the depth and breadth of ...

(John K. Cooley, veteran foreign correspo)

 

A tour de force in the depth and breadth of its research and in its clarity

(John K. Cooley, veteran foreign correspondent and author of Unholy Wars.)

 

An indispensable, basic introduction ...

(Gabriel Kolko, Distinguished Research Pr)

 

An indispensable, basic introduction

(Gabriel Kolko, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus at York University in Toronto and author of The Age of War.)

 

Gregory Harms has taken an enormously complex issue and made ...

(Sara Roy, Senior Research Scholar, Cente)

 

Gregory Harms has taken an enormously complex issue and made it engagingly accessible. An intelligent, thoughtful and comprehensive introduction to a terribly and consistently misunderstood conflict.

(Sara Roy, Senior Research Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, and author of Failing Peace.)

 

This work, written with a relaxed informality, is especially good ...

(Arthur Goldschmidt Jr. Professor Emeritu)

 

This work, written with a relaxed informality, is especially good at highlighting key issues. It will be ... helpful to students and to adult readers.

(Arthur Goldschmidt Jr. Professor Emeritus of Middle East History at Penn State University and author of A Concise History of the Middle East )