The Great Betrayal: The Struggle for Freedom and Democracy in the Middle East

“The Great Betrayal: The Struggle for Freedom and Democracy in the Middle East is by Fawaz Gerges, a professor at LSE, and represents more than a decade of work ‘trying to answer a recurring question posed by my students: Why has the Middle East reached this seeming low point after a century of state- and nation-building?’ The book covers the region from the end of the Ottoman Empire to the Arab Spring and highlights the interaction of foreign intervention and domestic authoritarianism as the root cause of the problems.” Read more...

Notable Nonfiction Books of Mid-2025

Sophie Roell, Journalist