About the Author

James L. Gelvin is Professor of History at UCLA. An award-winning teacher, he is the author of The Israel-Palestine Conflict: One Hundred Years of War (2005), Divided Loyalties: Nationalism and Mass Politics in Syria at the Close of Empire (1998), and numerous shorter works.

Reviews

By far the most engaging survey of the history of the modern Middle East that I have read in a long time ... clearly written, often humorous, accessible to students and non-specialists and theoretically sophisticated. Dina Rizk Khoury, George Washington University