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“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
Our most recommended books
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The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq
by Hanna Batatu -
The Travels of Ibn Battutah
by Ibn Battutah (edited by Tim Mackintosh-Smith) -
The Invention of the Jewish People
by Shlomo Sand -
Season of Migration to the North
by Tayeb Salih and Denys Johnson-Davies (translator) -
A Tale of Love and Darkness
by Amos Oz -
The Mantle of the Prophet
by Roy Mottahedeh
