TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pappe,Ilan
TI  - The modern Middle East
SN  - 9780415543729
U1  - 956.04 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Oxon, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Middle East
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 20th century
KW  - BUEsh
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - BUSBOL
KW  - October2018
KW  - Reading book
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: whose 'modern times'? -- Political history --
Economic history -- The rural history of the Middle East in the twentieth century -- Urban history -- Popular culture: music, dance and poetry -- The history of the written word -- Theatre, cinema, radio and television -- Histories of Middle Eastern women -- The many faces of Islam in the twenty-first century: three final aspects
N2  - To allay any fears of bias, Pappe (political science, U. of Haifa, Israel) states in his preface his belief that Israel would benefit from being more a part of the Middle East, a view that he says nearly lost him his teaching position in 2002. Designed as an undergraduate textbook, the text uses a comparative approach, which effectively conveys the continuity of experience shared among Arabs throughout the broad

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