The Making of the Modern Middle East - A Personal History

A Sunday Times Paperback of the Year A Spectator and New Statesman Book of the Year ''An illuminating and riveting read.'' Jonathan Dimbleby 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. Here, Bowen offers you a gripping and invaluable guide to the modern Middle East, how it came to be and what its future might hold. In The Making of the Modern Middle East - 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.

Product details

• Authors: Jeremy Bowen, Bowen Jeremy
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Release: 18.09.2025
• EAN: 9781035083992
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3508399-2
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; 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