The Making of the Modern Middle East - A Personal History

NOW UPDATED WITH A NEW CHAPTER A Sunday Times Paperback of the Year A Spectator and New Statesman Book of the Year ''An illuminating and riveting read'' Jonathan Dimbleby ''Arresting . . . excellent, doom-freighted'' The Times Jeremy Bowen, the International Editor of the BBC, has been covering the Middle East since 1989 and is uniquely placed to explain its complex past and its troubled present. In The Making of the Modern Middle East Bowen offers a gripping and invaluable guide, showing how it came to be and what its future might hold. In part based on his acclaimed podcast, ''Our Man in the Middle East'', Bowen takes you on a journey across the Middle East and through its history. He meets ordinary men and women on the front line, and their leaders, whether brutal or benign. He explores the power games that have so often wreaked devastation on civilian populations as those leaders, whatever their motives, jostle for political, religious and economic control. Clear throughout is Bowen''s deep understanding of the political, cultural and religious differences between countries as diverse as Erdogan''s Turkey, Assad''s Syria, Netanyahu''s Israel, and Palestine, whether Hamas-controlled Gaza or the West Bank, and his long experience of covering events in the region.

About the author

Jeremy Bowen is a journalist with a vast knowledge and experience of the Middle East. From 1995-2000, he was based in Jerusalem as the BBC's Middle East Correspondent, winning awards from television festivals in New York and Monte Carlo, as well as a Best Breaking News report from the Royal Television Society on the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. During the Kosovo crisis of 1999, he reported extensively from the region, often in dangerous conditions, which included being robbed at gunpoint by bandits whilst reporting from the Albanian border. He has been BBC Middle East Editor since 2005. He is the author of several acclaimed books, including Six Days: How the 1967 War Shaped the Middle East and The Arab Uprisings. He lives in London.

Product details

• Authors: Jeremy Bowen, Bowen Jeremy
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Release: 18.09.2025, delayed
• EAN: 9781035083992
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3508399-2
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism, True war & combat stories, HISTORY / Modern / 21st Century, Memoirs, HISTORY / Middle East / Israel & Palestine, HISTORY / Middle East / Iraq, 21st Century, Middle East, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Reportage & collected journalism, Middle Eastern history, True war and combat stories, Military history: post-WW2 conflicts, Afghan War, Reportage, journalism or collected columns, Gulf War, Iraq War, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / Afghan War (2001-2021), HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / Iraq War (2003-2011), HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / Persian Gulf War (1991), BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs