The Times Guide to the Middle East: The Arab World and its Neighbours, A Political Guide

by Peter Sluglett (Editor), Marion Farouk-Sluglett

The Gulf War is the most recent in a long series of confrontations in the Middle East that have made this area one of the most politically sensitive and complex in global politics. This book presents a comprehensive survey of the recent political history of the Arab world and its neighbours, including Turkey, Iran and Israel, from the treaty settlements at the end of World War I to the present day. Each nation is dealt with individually and indepth. Further chapters deal with broad themes such as migration, the Arab/Israeli conflict, the politics of oil, the Kurds and the Palestinian question.

256 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1992

About the author

Professor Peter Sluglett was Director of the Middle East Institute of the National University of Singapore.

He taught Middle Eastern History at the University of Durham (1974-1994) and at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City (1994-2011), where he was Director of the University’s Middle East Center.

He published widely on the modern history of Iraq, including Iraq since 1958: from Revolution to Dictatorship, 3rd edn., (2001, with Marion Farouk-Sluglett), and Britain in Iraq: Contriving King and Country (2007). He has also edited and contributed to The Urban Social History of the Middle East 1750-1950 (2008), Syria and Bilad al-Sham under Ottoman Rule: Essays in Honour of Abdul-Karim Rafeq, (2010, with Stefan Weber), and Writing the Modern History of Iraq: Historiographical and Political Challenges (2012).