In describing this action, Oren notes the tendency of the Egyptians and Jordanians to delude themselves as to the war’s progress. It was more than 30 years ago when Albert Hourani pointed to the common Ottoman lineages of the Arab political elite active in the inter-war Middle East. Is it merely a result of “physical” occupation by European powers, or does it begin in another set of relations? The book received a mixed reception with some historians criticizing the authors' methodology and conclusions. He is keen on understanding the effects of mass schooling, particularly imperial military schools which - through tuition-free education and boarding facilities - attracted boys from rural sectors and of modest backgrounds.

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These efforts were led on the German side by about 100 key officials, politicians and Middle Eastern experts, and on the other side Islamists and nationalists that drove ahead their joint jihadization of Islamism. Though, I recognize t

This is an original and illuminating interpretation of events in a region that is still deeply affected by the transformations that Michael Provence illustrates so perceptively. I think the shared militaristic ideology Öztan mentions was probably unsystematic and focused on saving the state, and ultimately salvaging something from the catastrophe. All this played out as part of the larger Cold War, with Arab countries generally backed by the Soviet Union, and Israel supported by the United States. Examining a series of spatial and temporal transformations taking place in the Middle East over the course of the long nineteenth century, it interrogates the very nature of the ‘colonial.

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He was one of few journalists reporting from Syria on the civil war and has most recently been reporting from Ukraine. It focuses on several conceptual distinctions that emerged—a product of important reorganisations of power and knowledge—between the ‘economic, the ‘religious, and the ‘political,’ understood to be separate domains, requiring separate modes of historical analysis. Yasin al-Hashimi’s premiership in Iraq during the mid-1930s provided both the model and at times funding for nationalist movements from Syria to Palestine. After all, the last Ottoman generation not only knew one another from Ottoman schools but they also socialized in revolutionary societies where they built ties of trust and cultivated a revolutionary vision for the Ottoman Empire.It has a nice balance between a history of the ME (probably 95%) and personal history of the author (probably 5%). However Germany developed ties with radical Arab nationalist groups, which survived Germany's defeat in World War I. Schwanitz, Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, Yale University Press, 2014". I also thought that just as the experience of Ottoman rule had united the region, so the experience of mandate colonial rule was a common experience.

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The settlement reached for Turkey meant that France - thus far wary of Kemalist meddling within Syria - became more self-confident in pushing its hold onto Syria, which eventually led to the outbreak of Great Syrian Revolt (1925).

Review Article: National Socialism, Islam, and the Middle East: Questioning Intellectual Continuities, Conceptual Stakes, and Methodology" (PDF). They join Gail Johnson, whose book A Long Five Years explores the lives of older Black citizens in Gloucester, most of whom came to the City from Jamaica in young adulthood, to talk about their lives and experiences in the city. For ease of purpose, however, Oren chooses to start in 1948, with the creation of the State of Israel, and the subsequent Arab-Israeli War.

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Marking the 75th anniversary of the arrival of the Empire Windrush and Black History Month, this special event is curated and chaired by Carole Francis-McGann of the St Ann Society of Gloucester. Reviewing the book in the Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs, Matthias Küntzel raises a number of issues with the book, identifying some of its claims as "nothing but speculation" and concluding that "certain facts that do not fit the picture have simply been left out," damaging the book's credibility.

Trumpener, Ulrich, “ German Officers in the Ottoman Empire, 1880–1918: Some Comments on their Backgrounds, Functions, and Accomplishments,” in Wallach, Jehuda L. A lot of the problems we are having to deal with now, I have to deal with now, are a consequence of our colonial past … The Balfour Declaration and the contradictory assurances which were being given to Palestinians in private at the same time as they were being given to the Israelis — again, an interesting history for us but not an entirely honourable one. This book focuses on the interwar period when those in charge of the mandated states of the Middle East dealt with the newly arrived non-Arab refugees in their midst as essentially unassimilable groups and—except for Britain’s encouragement of Jewish migration to Palestine—thought up various impractical schemes to resettle them elsewhere.